Earlier in the month, it was reported that the Baltimore Ravens had opened contract negotiations with linebacker C.J. Mosley and hoped to get a deal done before the onset of free agency.

However, Ravens coach John Harbaugh, who just signed a four-year extension with Baltimore on Thursday, said that while the team wants Mosley back, there are no guarantees due to financial constraints.

“Yeah, you’d rather have C.J. back,” Harbaugh said, according to Jonas Shaffer of The Baltimore Sun. “There’s always the give and take, of course. There are limitations with money, but C.J. wants to be back and we want him back. I think that’s a really good formula for a player coming back. I’m just not even going to entertain the possibility right now that that wouldn’t happen. I’ll just assume that’s going to happen. That’s where I’m at.”

Mosley is coming off of a 2018 campaign in which he registered 105 tackles, half a sack, an interception, and five passes defended en route to making the Pro Bowl.

The 26-year-old, who played his collegiate football at the University of Alabama, was originally selected by the Ravens in the first round (17th pick overall) of the 2014 NFL Draft.

He had a monster rookie year, racking up 151 tackles, three sacks, two picks, a forced fumble, a fumble recovery, and eight passes defended, earning a trip to Honolulu as a result.

Overall, Mosley has made Pro Bowls in four of his five seasons, and he even played at a Pro Bowl level in the one season he did not make it back in 2015, when he totaled 117 tackles and four sacks.