Eric DeCosta details Ravens year-round roster-building plan

Ravens Embrace Year-Round Roster Building After Draft

The draft might be over, but the Ravens aren’t done building. Baltimore views the days and weeks after the draft as another key phase, one where patience and timing often pay off.

Eric DeCosta explained that approach:

“We do. Yes. I mean, we don't have any agreements that would be illegal, of course, but there are always players out there that you can go after that you'll try to talk to at some point. The draft is really [where] you go through this process, and now you know what the roster looks like. So now it's easy next week to go out and say, ‘OK, we need this. We might need this. We might need this.’ So, I think with free agency, potentially trades, terminated players, we still [look at] June 1, where you are still at risk for players to be terminated, which is an opportunity for us to sign a few guys. And I remember, I don't know what year it was – maybe 2021 or 2022 – I was driving up to Penn State with my daughter, and I negotiated the contract for OLB Jadeveon Clowney in the car. That was in August. So those things can happen, right? And so again, we try to be patient [and] not be too reactive to things [or] overreact. [We] just [try] to be patient and see what happens, let good players fall to us. There's going to be opportunities coming along, and we'll be ready to pounce.”

That mindset has paid off before. Whether it’s late free-agent signings, post-June 1 moves, or unexpected roster cuts, the Ravens consistently find value after the draft. And based on DeCosta’s tone, they’re already preparing for what comes next.

This article originally appeared on Ravens Wire: DeCosta says Ravens ready to pounce on roster chances