Baltimore Ravens Thread

PLAYERS UNDER CONTRACT:

The Ravens presently have the following 35 players under contract for 2012 (with base salaries indicated):

QBs (2): Joe Flacco ($6.76M), Tyrod Taylor ($465K)

RBs (3): Ricky Williams ($1.5M), Vonta Leach ($3M), Anthony Allen ($465K)

WRs (6): Anquan Boldin ($6M), Torrey Smith ($529K), Lee Evans ($3.375M), David Reed ($540K), Tandon Doss ($465K), LaQuan Williams ($465K)

TE (2): Ed Dickson ($540K), Dennis Pitta ($540K)

OL (5): Michael Oher ($865K), Bryant McKinnie ($2M), Marshall Yanda ($4.5M), Jah Reid ($465K), Ramon Harewood ($540K),

DL (6): Haloti Ngata ($2.9M), Terrence Cody ($540K), Paul Kruger ($615K), Arthur Jones ($540K), Pernell McPhee ($465K), Michael McAdoo ($465K)

LBs (2): Ray Lewis ($4.95M), Terrell Suggs ($4.9M)

CBs (4): Domonique Foxworth ($5.6M), Chris Carr ($2.5M), Jimmy Smith ($714K), Chykie Brown ($465K)

S (3): Ed Reed ($7.2M), Bernard Pollard ($1.55M), Emmanuel Cook ($540K)

ST (2): Billy Cundiff ($2.2M), Sam Koch ($1.6M)

These 35 players are under contract for a total Salary Cap commitment of $107.9M. (Link to Salary Cap Spreadsheet).

EXCLUSIVE RIGHTS FREE AGENTS (EFAs):

These players must be tendered contracts of the league minimum, based on the player’s length of service in the league (either $540K or $465K). Once tendered, these players are fully under the team’s control and are not free to negotiate with other teams.

The Ravens have 7 players who are Exclusive Rights Free Agents (EFAs):

OG – Justin Boren

LB – Josh Bynes

LS – Morgan Cox

CB – Danny Gorrer

LB – Sergio Kindle

LB – Albert McClellan

LB – Chavis Williams

RESTRICTED FREE AGENTS (RFAs):

These are players whose contracts have expired and who have 3 years of accrued service time. The team must tender the player with an RFA offer. Once done, another team can sign the RFA to an RFA offer sheet, but the Ravens then have 7 days to match that offer sheet and retain the player under the terms of that offer sheet. If the Ravens were to choose not to match the offer sheet, then they would receive compensation based on which level of RFA tender was made to the player.

There are 3 RFA tenders (the new CBA did away with the “high” tender of 1st and 3rd round draft picks as compensation):

1st Round Tender: allows the team to receive the other team’s 1st round - $2.846M (est)

2nd Round Tender: allows the team to receive the other team’s 2nd round pick - $2M (est)

Low Tender: allows the team to receive a draft pick equal to the round in which the player was originally drafted or the Right of First Refusal (ROFR) for an undrafted player - $1.308M (est)

The Ravens have 4 players who are Restricted Free Agents (RFAs):

LB – Dannell Ellerbe

RB – Matt Lawrence

CB – Lardarius Webb

CB – Carey Williams

In the past, the Ravens have usually tendered all of their RFAs, but on occasion, the team has non-tendered some players and instead, offered them one-year veteran minimum contracts. The veteran minimum salary for those players would be $615K. This year, Matt Lawrence could be a candidate for such a deal, if he’s even retained at all.

With these 11 players are added to the team’s Salary Cap, it raises the team’s total Salary Cap commitment to just over $124.96M for the 46 player either under contract or tendered.

UNRESTRICTED FREE AGENTS (UFAs):

The following 13 players are Unrestricted Free Agents (UFAs) and will be free to sign with other teams if they haven’t re-signed with the Ravens before Free Agency begins on March 13th at 4:00 p.m.:

LB – Brendon Ayanbadejo

OC – Matt Birk

OG – Ben Grubbs

OC – Andre Gurode

LB – Jarret Johnson

LB – Edgar Jones

LB – Jameel McClain

DT – Brandon McKinney

S – Haruki Nakamura

DE – Corey Redding

RB – Ray Rice

TE – Kris Wilson

S – Tom Zbikowski

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