There has been some talk that Baltimore Ravens offensive lineman Marshal Yanda and safety Eric Weddle could retire before the 2019 season, but Ravens head coach John Harbaugh thinks both players will be back next year:
“Unless something changes along the way, they will be back,” Harbaugh said at his end-of-season news conference, according to Jonas Shaffer of The Baltimore Sun. “We have talked about all those things, but no decisions have been made. One thing you learn about this whole building a roster around the National Football League and working around the [salary] cap is that no decision stands on its own feet. It's not sequential, either. It's not this, then this, then this. It all happens together at once.”
Both players are under contract, so it's just a matter of whether or not they decide to return. Losing one or both would certainly be a significant loss for Baltimore, as both guys made the Pro Bowl this season:
“There's nobody that doesn't want both those players on our team, so we'll do everything we can to make that happen and we'll see what happens,” Harbaugh said.
Yanda has played his entire 13-year career with the Ravens, making seven Pro Bowls overall and earning two First-Team All-Pro selections.
Weddle arrived in Baltimore as a free agent in 2016 and has remained one of the league's top safeties, earning trips to Honolulu in each of his three seasons with the club. Overall, Weddle, who spent the first nine years of his career with the then-San Diego Chargers, has made six Pro Bowls and has earned First-Team All-Pro honors twice.
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