The Ravens have locked up one of their young offensive players.
Baltimore and receiver Zay Flowers have agreed to a four-year contract extension, ESPN’s Adam Schefter reports.
The deal is worth a reported $140 million, with $108 million guaranteed.
Flowers’ deal puts him just behind Drake London in terms of average new money per year at $35 million. Jaxon Smith-Njigba’s contract leads the market at $42.15 million per year.
The No. 22 overall pick of the 2023 draft, Flowers was already under contract through 2027 after Baltimore exercised his fifth-year option in the spring.
Flowers became the first wide receiver in Ravens franchise history to be selected to the Pro Bowl in 2024. He was again selected to the Pro Bowl in 2025, having caught 86 passes for 1,211 yards with five touchdowns in 17 games.
Overall, Flowers has caught 237 passes for 3,128 yards with 14 TDs in 50 games over his three seasons. He’s also registered nine receptions for 156 yards with a touchdown in two playoff games.
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The Ravens aren’t in any rush to name a starting center.
They signed Ethan Pocic just before the start of camp and he is competing with Danny Pinter and Jovaughn Gwyn as the Ravens look for a new starter in the wake of Tyler Linderbaum’s move to the Raiders in free agency. Pocic tore his Achilles last December, which head coach Jesse Minter cited as a reason why the team plans to take its time.
“I don’t know that there’s a deadline,” Minter said, via the team’s website. “One of them in the mix of the battle is coming off of an injury. That timeline may or may not be perfect for that first game. There will come a point in time where we will certainly focus on getting ready for that first game. I think a couple weeks out, that will probably shake itself out.”
Pocic has the most starting experience of the trio and we’ll find out if the extended time to compete for the job leads to him landing it before Week 1.
The Ravens lost an experienced backup offensive lineman when Hakeem Adeniji retired, but they’ve found another one to take his spot on the roster.
Jeff Zrebiec of TheAthletic.com reports that the Ravens are signing tackle Kendall Lamm. Lamm was one of three offensive linemen to work out for the team on Monday.
Lamm has played for four teams since entering the league as an undrafted free agent in 2015. He spent the last four seasons in Miami and started 16 of the 46 games that he played for the Dolphins. Lamm has also played for the Titans, Browns and Texans.
The NFL’s daily transaction report shows that Jake Curhan and Nicholas Petit-Frere also worked out for the Ravens.
Veteran defensive lineman Calais Campbell is on the field at Ravens camp for the first time this summer on Monday.
Campbell was not placed on any injury list to open camp, but the team gave him time off to open camp as he worked his way back from a family tragedy. Campbell’s mother was killed in late June and his brother was arrested for murder on July 1.
“From a preparation standpoint, that took up a lot of his time and his mental focus and energy. . . . We’re here for Calais, to get ready at the rate he can get ready at,” Ravens head coach Jesse Minter said last week, via the team’s website. “It’s different than a 25-year-old that played only a year or two. This guy’s got so many banked reps of experience of getting himself ready in camp. We’re going to work with Calais to have a great plan, to have him ready for September, December, January and February.”
Campbell wasn’t the only Ravens defensive lineman making his first appearance of the summer. John Jenkins is off the physically unable to perform list and practicing with the team as well.
Hakeem Adeniji will not be providing the Ravens with offensive line depth this season.
The team announced on Monday morning that Adeniji has been placed on the reserve/retired list. Adeniji signed with the Ravens a little over a week ago, but he has decided against continuing his NFL career.
Adeniji was a Bengals sixth-round pick in 2020 and he started 15 of the 39 regular season games he played over three years with the team. He also made seven starts in the postseason.
Adeniji, who saw action at both guard and tackle, moved on to the Vikings in 2024 and the Cowboys in 2025. He played 16 games and made one start in those stops.
Yes, receiver DeAndre Hopkins has taken a coaching job at Georgia Tech. No, he hasn’t closed the door on playing in 2026.
“I haven’t retired from the NFL,” Hopkins posted Saturday on Twitter, via Andy Backstrom of Yahoo Sports. “But if you’re a WR and you want to be great, come to Georgia Tech football.”
Hopkins, 34, is keeping himself busy as he waits for another opportunity.
“DeAndre is one of the greatest receivers of all time, but his value to our program goes far beyond that,” Georgia Tech head coach Brent Key said in the statement announcing Hopkins’s arrival. “He has an exceptional knowledge of what we’re doing on offense due to his long relationship with [offensive coordinator] George Godsey and strong familiarity with the ACC, but, most importantly, he’s a leader of men that I’m very excited for our players to be around, on and off the field.”
Hopkins, who spent time working with the Patriots’ coaching staff early in camp, would prefer not to be around, if that means continuing to play. For now, opportunity hasn’t knocked. Hopkins wants the league to know that, even as he works as a coach, he’s ready to keep playing.
A first-round pick in 2013, Hopkins spent seven seasons with the Texans and three with the Cardinals before splitting 2024 between the Titans and Chiefs. He played for the Ravens in 2025.
He has 1,006 career catches, 13,295 receiving yards, and 85 touchdowns. And he’s clearly interested in adding to those numbers during what would be a 14th NFL season.
Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson is in a new offense this season and one of the changes he’s adapting to this summer concerns where he’s lining up.
Offensive coordinator Declan Doyle has Jackson taking snaps under center more often than he has in the past and Jackson was asked about his comfort level with that shift from past seasons.
“I am extremely comfortable with it,” Jackson said, via a transcript from the team. “In youth football I was under center – I haven’t been consistently under center since youth football. We did it here and there in the past, but with this balanced type of offense, I feel like it will help us out a lot – identifying the defense, really keeping the defense on their toes.”
There have been other tweaks to the offense since Doyle was hired and Jackson said there have been “no difficulties” adjusting to what he’s being asked to do in this system. The Ravens will need that to continue into the fall for their 2026 season to end in a better place than they did last year.
After spending some time with the Patriots during training camp, DeAndre Hopkins has found a more permanent job in coaching.
Per Matt Zenitz of CBS Sports, Georgia Tech is expected to hire Hopkins as a member of the program’s offensive staff.
After departing New England’s training camp, Hopkins has spent time this week visiting with the team.
George Godsey, Georgia Tech’s offensive coordinator, was previously Hopkins’ OC with the Texans from 2015-2016. Godsey was also on last year’s Ravens staff as tight ends coach when Hopkins was with Baltimore.
If this is indeed the end for Hopkins as an NFL player, he’ll finish with 1,006 receptions for 13,295 yards with 85 touchdowns in 195 games over 13 seasons. He had 22 catches for 330 yards with two TDs with the Ravens last year.
The Ravens got a pair of defensive players back from the physically unable to perform list on Friday.
They announced that linebacker Adisa Isaac and cornerback Bilhal Kone have both been cleared to start practicing with the team at training camp.
Isaac will be hoping for better health in his third season. The 2024 third-round pick only played in four games as a rookie due to a hamstring injury and he missed all of last season after dislocating his elbow.
Kone was a sixth-round pick last April, but didn’t play in the regular season because he tore his ACL and MCL in the Ravens’ first preseason game last summer.
Ravens running back Derrick Henry is 32. That’s 2 years beyond where most running backs are run off.
Henry, though, is defying the odds.
In the two seasons since he turned 30 and joined the Ravens, Henry has rushed for 3,516 yards, averaged 5.6 yards per carry and scored 32 touchdowns.
Henry is entering his 11th season with no thoughts of his career ending any time soon.
“I don’t try to enter another season thinking about retiring and have that on my mind,” Henry said after the Ravens’ training camp practice Thursday, via Jeff Zrebiec of TheAthletic.com. “That’s not even my mindset. My mindset is: How can I get better, be the best I can be so we can be the best team we can be? But no, I haven’t thought about retirement at all.”
The five-time Pro Bowler, who has put together a Hall of Fame resume, still has plenty left to accomplish. He has never won a Super Bowl ring, which he says is “the No. 1 goal, always,” and he has a chance to move up on the NFL’s all-time rushing list.
His 13,018 rushing yards rank 10th, and with another 1,500-yard season, he can pass Eric Dickerson (13,259), Jerome Bettis (13,662), LaDainian Tomlinson (13,684) and Curtis Martin (14,101) into sixth place.
Emmitt Smith, the NFL’s all-time leading rusher, was 35 years old in his final season of 2004. Henry isn’t thinking about how long he’s going to play, but has no thoughts of retirement.
“I love the game, and once I feel like that love is gone, then I’ll hang it up,” Henry said. “But I’m just focused on getting better.”
