 ago Jeremy Fowler of ESPN he dropped an article that went through all 32 teams and he listed them in terms of steel major contenders all the way down to teams who need to do a full rebuild and the part about the Baltimore Ravens let's just get right into it he listed them as steel major contenders and let's read he says what's next Baltimore is plug-and-play the Ravens have just about everything they need to make another run a major decision looms on defensive tackle just Amanda BK one of the most coveted free agents after a 13 sec season Baltimore typically lets free agents test the market but he would be going fast absent this franchise tag or a long term deal that is true Eric DeCosta we watching my friend we know you got it though anyway says some personnel people inside the league believe here we go right here that the Ravens will target a running back with pedigree in free agency so not just anybody but a running back that is established somebody who's been one of them guys before or may still be one of them guys now continuing Baltimore has a few tough salary cap decisions but should be able to keep most of his veteran base intact and that is true now we of course know the Baltimore Ravens have been linked to names such as Derek Henry remember last year when the Baltimore Ravens almost traded for Derek Henry but everything ended up falling apart at the last second they've also been linked to guys like Alvin Kamara, Saquon Barkley, Josh Jacobs and we're going to talk about what this could possibly mean for the Baltimore Ravens with them being linked to a running back that has been like that recently before we do team keeping clean we are at 73,599 subscribers right now so we are 401 subscribers away from 74k oh i'm over here rhyming and stuff like that but anyway subscribe to the channel let's get to 74,000 subscribers subscribe to the channel turn your notifications on so you do not miss not one single update and also leave a like on the video because it helps out the channel a lot i love y'all i appreciate y'all always love your feedback i appreciate y'all always commenting on the videos always leaving likes on the videos and just showing support to the channel day in day out i love you thank you now with the Baltimore Ravens um they have been linked to Derek Henry a lot a whole lot uh i know there are a lot of Ravens fans that are for it and there are a lot of Ravens fans that are against it but one thing when you think about Derek Henry that just continues to always amaze me is his production and to me it doesn't make any sense how productive Derek Henry is um and then i was talking to my god jason from huddle up films the other day and he's talking about how Derek Henry for this game the zone runner scheme at the Baltimore Ravens run he would be such a great fit for it and i was like oh okay let's get it baby but anyway um with Derek Henry you think about whenever you think about the tennessee titans who's the first person you think about it ain't drone drone curse i mean it used to be back days ago it used to be steve mcnair would be eddie george uh but now when you think about the tennessee titans the first person you think about is Derek Henry so if that's the first person you think about when you think about tennessee titans imagine what all the defenses that are going against them who's the first person that they think about it's the same person spoiler alert so with that being said for him to still continue to be as productive as he's been to me it doesn't make any sense because the titans like they ain't been no special team recently they ain't had this all world offensive line or anything like that they had this all world offensive but for Derek Henry just we'll go over the past i mean we'll go since 2018 because that's been that can establish some consistency 2018 he had 1059 rushing yards average 4.9 yards a carry 12 touchdowns 2019 303 carries 1500 yards average 5.1 yards a carry 16 touchdowns 2020 378 carries 2000 27 yards average 5.4 yards a carry 17 touchdowns 2021 219 carries 937 yards average 4.3 yards a carry 10 touchdowns 2022 and again what we always hear about Derek Henry oh man he's older he keeps getting older obviously he keeps getting older because you can't get younger but he's gonna get worn down he's gonna fall off but he just keeps on producing 2021 219 carries 937 yards 4.3 yards per carry 10 touchdowns 2022 349 attempts 1500 yards 4.4 yards per carry 13 touchdowns and this year the Tennessee Titans he ran for 280 times a lot over 1100 yards 4.2 yards per carry and 12 touchdowns so this man just he just keeps producing now um with Derek Henry the thing that I think about a couple things I would not mind if Derek Henry was on the Baltimore Ravens I think he could do good with the Baltimore Ravens but when you think about that you look at those numbers and you look at that production then you think about if Derek Henry was with the Ravens he wouldn't be the focal point with the Tennessee Titans Derek Henry was the focal point they know hey Derek Henry is getting that ball they know he's getting the ball but with the Baltimore Ravens like you yeah Derek Henry could be out there but that ball could go to so many other people which is a beautiful thing and a beautiful problem to have even though it's not really a problem but anyway um Derek Henry could feast with the Baltimore Ravens him being a Baltimore Raven would make life so much easier for him and for the Baltimore Ravens now with Derek Henry my concern now and you know what let's go through all the positives and then we'll go through the negatives the possible negatives about the running backs and what I think is probably the most underrated thing about each of these guys uh with Derek Henry again that would be the positive with a guy like Alvin Kamara I think he would fit this offense perfectly as well Alvin Kamara um catching passes out of backfield we know that the Baltimore Ravens have done a much better job overall uh uh involving the check down game maybe you know it was a championship but they this year the check down game has definitely been there a lot that's Alvin Kamara all day with the screens he's like a little receive out there and just his style of play will fit the Baltimore Ravens good as well um you think about Saquon Barkley just how explosive he is how he could take a two-yard game turn it to a 60-yard game like that that band is just amazing and then Josh Jacobs I think he's just such a a well-rounded running back um and I feel like for him I can only list him on the positive side I don't really see any negatives with Josh Jacobs like that but anyway um when you think about the negatives when I think about the negatives with any of these four running backs uh with Derek Henry um first and second down back what the Tennessee Titans did and I'm not sure if you could teach an old dog new tricks or whatnot maybe who knows but what the Tennessee Titans did they made it so obvious because on running downs first and second down Derek Henry was out there you saw number 22 passing down hey big fella come over here come to the sideline for a minute let me talk to you they would take Derek Henry off the field for passing downs so that kind of lets us know like the pass protection ain't good catching passes out of the backfield that's not really his thing so that would be something wherever you learn and I yeah so that that part would be a little concerning because that could be some giveaways some possible giveaways for Derek Henry or hey maybe he gets with the right coaching staff and they help him improve his pass protection catching pass out of hey who knows who knows we'll see well we maybe we might see but anyway that would be a a negative on Derek Henry with Alvin Kamara um the negative would be just the cap hit the the cap hit I know he got like a crazy cap hit especially over the next two years I think his contract runs for the next two years so the cap hit is just crazy high right now now if he were to be released from New Orleans then it's like oh okay there you go but if it were to be via trade then yeah that probably ain't gonna happen Saquon Barkley Saquon Barkley y'all already know what the negative on him is it's injuries that's it man it's injuries he can literally do everything and I hate it for him too man because he is just such an amazing running back but the injuries man because he can catch pass out of the backfield you send him on a little wheel route he'll catch the ball he'll use it he could run he could go through the tackle he could take it to the outside he can do everything at a high level but the injuries man they they just they change everything for him in a bad way man so it's like with him if you were to sign a Saquon Barkley we would love it but there would just be that fear so I think that's where the money can get kind of funny with Saquon Barkley we'll see what happens with him in free agency though and again with Josh Jacobs he's been healthy he's been productive like I feel for Josh Jacobs I feel like there's not really a knock on Josh Jacobs at all but what all four of those running backs have in common and something that I feel like is extremely underrated and something that would benefit the Baltimore Ravens in a major way if they were to get any of those guys like Jeremy Fowler originally mentioned in the article that we read earlier it would be a running back with pedigree it would be a running back that had been established in an NFL would be a running back that had been respected and has been there and done that and got his as a running back in this league and the reason I feel like that is extremely important is because the Baltimore Ravens it would be somebody that they would have to pay some significant money to I don't think they would go crazy crazy with it but it will be somebody that they paid a significant amount of money to so when you pay somebody a significant amount of money you usually want to use them you usually want to involve them so I would think and I would actually I would hope that if it came playoff time came crunch time if it came down to it and the Baltimore Ravens were in the playoffs and it's like hey we're paying this running back a lot of money how about we use him that would obviously change everything about these Baltimore Ravens because again we go back to 2019 the running backs with Gus Edwards it was Mark Ingram a hurt mark Ingram though because he had a lot of things like a high ankle sprain something like that but they didn't really run those running backs the running backs got nine carries the total of nine carries one running back has six carries or the other one had three it was between Gus Edwards and Mark Ingram so they got nine carries in 2019 and that infamous playoff game against Derek Henry in the Titans by the way and then of course this year they got six so but I think when you look in the backfield like with Gus Edwards Gus Edwards is cool Gus Edwards is nice but I just feel like the Ravens they never fully respected Gus Edwards as that guy at the running back position and then you could tell that because by the way that they use him or really by the way that they didn't use him it's the same way with Justice Hill they don't respect him as that guy at the running back position and then with Keaton Mitchell he was out there doing this but then he unfortunately got hurt with JK Dobbins they tried to give him the keys but he just kept getting hurt so the Ravens have they haven't really had a significant investment in the running back position to where they like hey we got to have this guy that we got to play no because it's it's been really cheap there because again a second round pick JK Dobbins Keaton Mitchell undrafted rookie free agent Gus Edwards undrafted rookie free agent Justice Hill he was a fourth round pick so you the last investment you really had there was probably uh Mark Ingram because they signed him to that three year 15 million dollar deal where he's getting five mil per but that's that's been it really so with the Baltimore Ravens if they are to acquire one of these four running backs or just whatever running back they ended up getting and he it does have some pedigree to his name I think that could really be a big game changer for Baltimore especially come playoff time because we know regular season the running backs going to get there and then I'm sure they're still going to do running back by committee I would still expect them to do that but playoff time that's when it's a real game changer in my opinion because that's when everything counts that much more for an example of what I'm talking about we look at Marcus Williams Marcus Williams they signed Marcus Williams a couple years ago free agent they signed him to his big money deal and I loved it and Marcus Williams he showed up he unfortunately got hurt both years I don't know what's been going on with that but Marcus Williams is their big money free agent at the free safety position from a couple years ago Marcus Williams he got hurt both years but then this year he got hurt they had Geno Stone Geno Stone was in there doing this thing and Geno Stone was a cheap option at the position because he's not making nearly as much as Marcus Williams at least not yet but he went out there and he was killing him just picking off every quarterback that he went against and just doing an amazing work Marcus Williams gets slightly healthy what did the Baltimore Ravens do they went to their big money acquisition they went to their big free agent acquisition at the free safety position they said Geno look we know you've been doing your thing but we paid this guy a lot of money here to play the position so yeah he's up that's what I could foresee the Baltimore Ravens doing and I would hope that they would do it if it came playoff time not necessarily taking away snaps from some productive running back but actually being forced and actually realizing hey we can use this guy we're paying this guy all this money so we gotta use him right right