Feature Clips Week 3 Ravens at Lions Feature Clips Week 3 Table of Contents • Mark Andrews ............................................................................. 1 • Anthony Averett .......................................................................... 2 • Rashod Bateman .................................................................... 3-6 • Ben Cleveland ......................................................................... 7-8 • Malik Harrison ............................................................................. 9 • Marlon Humphrey ............................................................... 10-12 • Justin Madubuike .....................................................................13 • Odafe Oweh ......................................................................... 14-17 • Patrick Ricard ..................................................................... 18-20 • Ronnie Stanley .................................................................... 21-22 • Brandon Stephens .............................................................. 23-25 Ravens TE Mark Andrews Signs Four-Year Contract Extension Worth Reported $56 Million BALTIMORE SUN | SEPT. 6, 2021 | JONAS SHAFFER The Ravens reached a long-term deal with one of their brightest offensive stars Monday, signing tight end Mark Andrews to a four-year contract extension. Andrews’ deal is worth $56 million over four years and includes $37.6 million in guaranteed money, according to ESPN. The extension comes on his 26th birthday and makes Andrews the NFL’s third-highest-paid tight end ($14 million per year), trailing only the San Francisco 49ers’ George Kittle ($15 million) and Kansas City Chiefs’ Travis Kelce ($14.3 million) in annual value. Andrews, a Pro Bowl selection in 2019, was entering the final year of his four-year rookie contract. He had a team-high 58 catches for 701 yards and seven touchdowns in 14 games last season, becoming the first tight end in Ravens history to produce multiple seasons with at least 700 receiving yards and seven receiving touchdowns. “Mark is exactly the type of player we wish to keep as a Raven long-term,” general manager Eric DeCosta said in a release Monday. “He’s competitive, passionate, talented and a leader. We are so excited to have him in Baltimore for the next five years. Congratulations to Mark and his family — and happy birthday.” Over three seasons in Baltimore, despite playing in a run-heavy system, Andrews has 156 catches for 2,105 yards and 20 touchdowns. Since 1970, the start of the NFL’s modern era, only 16 other tight ends have recorded 2,000 receiving yards over their first three seasons, according to Pro Football Reference, including stars like Rob Gronkowski, Jimmy Graham, Zach Ertz and George Kittle, all of whom played in more pass-oriented offenses. DeCosta said in January that the Ravens “would be foolish to not want to try and keep” Andrews with a long-term deal. He said the former Oklahoma star is “one of the better tight ends in the entire NFL” and underlined his fit in a “tight end-centric offense.” “He works hard every day to get better at his craft, and he wants to be one of the best ones in the game,” Ravens tight ends coach Bobby Engram said last month. “But he also attacks the playbook, and he’s really worked hard on being a better blocker. So he just wants to be a complete player, and he goes about his business every day like that.” Andrews’ extension is the latest DeCosta has handed out to an ascendant homegrown player, following 2020 deals for left tackle Ronnie Stanley and cornerback Marlon Humphrey. Securing quarterback Lamar Jackson, who’s under contract through 2022, to a long-term megadeal remains the Ravens’ top priority. Few expected Andrews to establish himself so quickly when he arrived in Baltimore three years ago. Despite winning the John Mackey Award in 2017, given to the nation’s top tight end, he fell to the third round of the 2018 draft over concerns about his blocking ability and athleticism. He arrived at offseason workouts in the shadow of the Ravens’ top pick, tight end Hayden Hurst, who was drafted seven spots before quarterback Lamar Jackson (No. 32 overall) and 61 spots before Andrews (No. 86). But Andrews went on to lead all Ravens tight ends as a rookie with 552 receiving yards and three touchdown catches. In 2019, when the Ravens had the NFL’s most efficient offense, he set a single-season franchise record for touchdown catches by a tight end (10) and finished with team highs in receptions (64), receiving yards (852) and receiving touchdowns (10). Last season, despite a slight dip in production, Andrews improved his drop rate (from 7.1% to 5.7%) and finished the season as Pro Football Focus’ No. 10 pass-blocking tight end and No. 17 run-blocking tight end, one of the few at the position to be rated so highly at both. Andrews is one of the more popular players in the Ravens’ locker room — “So happy for Money Mark,” former Sooners teammate and current Ravens wide receiver Marquise “Hollywood” Brown tweeted Monday — and one of its hardest-working. He trained with Brown and rookie wide receiver Rashod Bateman during the Ravens’ offseason hiatus in July, and was so drained after a humid joint practice with the Carolina Panthers last month that he had to be treated for full-body cramping with intravenous fluids. Andrews’ dedication is most evident in his chemistry with Jackson, who has likened their go-and-get-it connection to “street ball.” Andrews was dominant at times throughout offseason workouts and training camp; coach John Harbaugh remarked in June that Andrews was “running routes the best that I’ve seen him run routes since he’s been here.” When Andrews was asked whether he’d thought about his future in Baltimore, he said his focus was on self-improvement. His mantra since childhood has been constant: “Top five,” a statement of purpose about where he thinks he stands in the world, in whatever he’s doing. “I try not to worry about the things that are not in my control,” Andrews said in June. “I love Baltimore. I love being here. I love playing here. I want to be here for the rest of my life, man. This is home for me. So that’s where I’m at. I’m just going to, as a player, be the best player that I can be for this team. … “We all are moving in the same direction, and that’s really all that I’m worried about right now. You can’t worry about too much of the outside noise and what happens with that. I’m just going to let my play speak for itself. Obviously, I love Baltimore. I love being here, and I would love to be here for my whole life.” 1 Anthony Averett ‘Has All-Pro Talent’ In Backup Role For Ravens AL.COM | AUG. 19, 2021 | MARK INABINETT Anthony Averett’s NFL career has resembled his time at Alabama so far. If that continues, then the cornerback is about to take off in 2021, and Baltimore Ravens defensive coordinator Don “Wink” Martindale thinks Averett has the ability to do that. “He’s one of my favorites,” Martindale said on Tuesday. “I said in front of the defense last night, to me, he’s the third-best corner we have on the team, and I think the kid has All-Pro talent. I tell him that every day, and he’s practicing that way this year. I mean, you’re really seeing everything go from the practice field to games now, and you can just see his confidence build. I tell everybody when I start talking about him, it doesn’t matter who he’s covering – to him – he just goes and covers them, and that’s what you like about your corners.” In his first three years at Alabama, Averett played in seven games before entering the starting secondary in his junior season. He didn’t play in the Crimson Tide’s 45-40 victory over Clemson in the CFP national championship game for the 2015 season, but Averett had six tackles, a sack and a pass breakup in Alabama’s 26-23 overtime victory against Georgia in his final appearance for the Tide – the CFP national championship game for the 2017 season. A fourth-round selection in the 2018 NFL Draft, Averett has played in 30 games, with seven starts, for the Ravens. His playing time has increased from 71 defensive snaps as a rookie to 220 in 2019 and 354 last season, which put him on the field for one-third of Baltimore’s defensive plays in 2020. “Actually, I did pretty much the same thing at Alabama,” Averett said. “I sat for plenty of years, then I got my chance, got my opportunity and I never left the field after that, so that’s my mission, that’s my goal, and, you know, nothing wrong with sitting back and just actually learning, and that’s what I pretty much did and now you see the outcome.” One of the players ahead of Averett on the depth chart during his time at Alabama was Marlon Humphrey. In Baltimore, Humphrey holds the same status. While Martindale considers Averett an All-Pro talent, the Ravens’ starting cornerbacks are All-Pros. A first-round pick in the 2017 NFL Draft, Humphrey received first-team All-Pro recognition in 2019 and was a Pro Bowl pick in 2019 and 2020. A first-round pick in the 2015 NFL Draft, Marcus Peters was an All-Pro in 2016 and 2019 and a Pro Bowler in 2015, 2016 and 2019. “Definitely I want to be out there and definitely want to play,” Averett said, “but I know the circumstances. I know this is the NFL and I can’t just select and I love to be here. I love the Ravens. We have a deep secondary. I know that. But whenever I get my chance, I just ball. I just do my best.” Averett’s rise in playing time in 2020 included four starts. In those four games, Averett played 224 of Baltimore’s 237 defensive snaps.