After their dreadful 8-9 season, the Baltimore Ravens are ready to make 2021 a thing of the past. Having reloaded through the draft, the Ravens are going to be asking a lot of this specific position group for their 2022 season to help and right the ship and get back to the postseason.
Lamar Jackson will be tasked with leading this offense again, and hopefully, with JK Dobbins healthy, the Ravens can have a 1-2 punch heading their rushing attack. With Marquise Brown in Arizona, the receiving game falls to both Mark Andrews and Rashod Bateman, both of whom will be taking on even larger roles this season.
But the key position group for the Ravens is not on their offense – it is going to be from their defense, helping this unit return to the dominance that it used to show many years ago.
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Ravens Key Position Group For The 2022 NFL Season
Defensive Secondary
Not since the days of Ed Reed have the Ravens had this type of talent in their defensive secondary, making them the easy selection for the key position group.
Marlon Humphrey is the leading name in this group, as the 26-year-old former Crimson Tide player enters the first year of his five-year, $97.5 million extension signed back in 2020. Humphrey is this defense’s leader and plays as such, having recorded 11 or more passes defended in each of his five years in the NFL.
But Humphrey is not alone in the CB room, as both Kyle Fuller and Marcus Peters fill the role of established veterans, while 2022 fourth-round rookie Jayln Armour-Davis looks to continue the pathway of Alabama CBs to the league. With both Fuller and Peters on the older side (29 and 30), their experience will help handle some of the better passing attacks the NFL has to offer, making this unit quite formidable.
For the safety group, offseason signee Marcus Williams jumped ship from New Orleans on a big-money deal to help pair with Chuck Clark. Combine those two with Kyle Hamilton, the 14th overall selection this year from Notre Dame, and you have quite the solid core at safety. Other depth options, like Tony Jefferson and Geno Stone, could be starters on other teams, speaking to just how much talent this defensive secondary has.
While none of these listed players are even close to being on the same level as the type of player Reed was, as a whole they could have the same impact on their opponent’s offensive schemes with the amount of talent they have. If Hamilton grows into the type of role that the front office thinks he will, both he and Williams will be one of the, if not the, best combination at safety in the NFL.
Humphrey is still one of the league’s premier boundary corners (and is certainly paid like one), and having both Fuller and Peters supporting him makes their scheme a tough one to crack. The defense for the Ravens is back, and not many players or teams are going to have much to stay otherwise.
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