One area at which the Baltimore Ravens are very thin is the wide receiver position. While the Ravens had some decent wideouts in Michael Crabtree, Willie Snead, and John Brown last season, they did not have any game-breakers, and a lot of that has to do with their draft history.

Baltimore has not done a great job of picking wide receivers in the draft over the last decade, as it has chosen 11 wideouts over the last 10 drafts, with Torrey Smith and Breshad Perriman representing the only two receivers the Ravens took before the fourth round during that span.

Smith had some good years for Baltimore, but Perriman was a bust before finally being released last year.

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The Ravens are going to need to start getting better players at the position, and general manager Eric DeCosta is aware of that and feels that the club may need to take some shots and hope for the best:

“I think one of the biggest things we have to do is just get some at-bats and swing,” DeCosta said, according to Josh Alper of Pro Football Talk. “It’s hard to be a .400 hitter if you’re only going to bat twice. We’ve got to take some chances, we’ve got to find some guys that we like. We’ve got to appreciate the really good football players, the guys that make plays.”

Baltimore is coming off of a season in which they won 10 games and captured the AFC North division title before falling to the Los Angeles Chargers in the Wild Card Round of the playoffs.