 Kenan Allen. He is a potential cap cut for the Sandy, ooh, not the San Diego, the Los Angeles Chargers. My fault, my apologies. But he is a potential cap cut at the YRC position for the Chargers. And the question today is should the Baltimore Ravens, if that potential ends up coming to fruition, should they pursue, should they hop on the Kenan Allen train if he does become a free agent? I know it's been a big hot topic amongst Ravens fans. I mean, YRC will always is. There's been a lot of talk about De'Andre Hopkins. There been some talk about Mike Evans. But now, since this came up, there's been some talk about Kenan Allen. And we are here to talk about it some more. Ain't no jazz, but I mean, you to team, keep it clean. You see my boy, he like got him made it. Boy, that's my homie, ain't that right engraving? Team, keep it clean. Y'all know I'm someone who believes people's jobs should be made easier. 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But some potential CapCuts that they listed were from the Chargers with Khalil Mack, Keenan Allen and Gerald Everett. But with Keenan Allen, obviously the Y-receiver position is one that the Ravens have been lacking at for a while. It is a position of need. And it's a position that they could definitely use some upgrading yet. I mean, they said it themselves, right? They were gonna rebuild the Y-receiver room. So we'll see how that goes. But will Keenan Allen be a good fit? In my opinion, I think he could be. He will certainly be a big upgrade. Literally, because he was 6'2. You know what? This whole time, I thought Keenan Allen was like 6'4. I really thought he was significantly taller than 6'2. I know it's just two inches, but still. I thought he was like 6'4 this whole time. I didn't know he was just 6'2. But he plays bigger than what he's actually listed at. And a lot of times, somebody's a little bit taller. Their route running may not be as crisp as somebody that's shorter or whatnot, but nah, not like Keenan Allen. Not like Keenan Allen. That boy can run some crisp, sharp routes. And somebody else that the Baltimore Ravens got on their team can do the same thing. Rashad Bateman. And with Rashad Bateman and Keenan Allen, if you paired those two, you would have some nice route runners. And with nice route runners, what do they do even if they not the fastest in the world? They can get open. They can get open. And that makes your quarterback's job that much easier. If you have multiple guys on both sides that can both get open, that would be a beautiful thing. And just imagine Keenan Allen on one side and Rashad Bateman on the other side, then you throw in a speedster, a deep threat wide receiver. And Rashad Bateman, we know he got some speed now. So they ain't taking another way from him, but if you add another legitimate threat at the wide receiver position, boom, hey, that's a big upgrade right there. So should the Ravens do it? Well, looking at Keenan Allen, one of the things about Keenan Allen that I hear a lot, and I mean, we see it enough times too, we hear about injuries, but how injured has he truly been over the years? Well, looking at his history, looking at just this year alone, he played in 10 games this year. Obviously it's a 17 game schedule. He played in 10 of them. So he missed, well, seven games. That is a significant amount of games. We know Rashad Bateman, he also missed a chunk of games this year too. But then let's go back to previous year. Let's sort of look at his track record, what has been recently. Last year he played in 16 games. That's a good thing. The year before that, he played in 14 games. The year before that, he played in 16 games. And then in 2018, the year before that, he played in 16 games. And in 2017, he played in 16 games. So it was really, his worst injuries happened in 2015 and 2016, where in 2015 he only played in eight. And in 2016, he only played in one. And then this past year, he only ended up playing in 10. But when you look at it, it's so important to look at consistency. When you talk about injuries, in my opinion, it's important to see, obviously what you have done for me lately, but what you have done recently over the past couple of years. So overall, his health has not been a big issue. Now what about his impact? What about his impact? What about those numbers that he's been putting up? Well, now we gotta use context because Kenan Allen charges past heavy team. That's important to know. Important to realize too. So this year, he had 66 catches for 752 yards, four touchdowns. And again, remember, he missed seven games. Those numbers, that'll be our best receiver. That'll be the best receiver on the Baltimore Ravens putting up numbers like that. But then going to the previous year, 2021, he put up 106 catches for over 1100 yards and six touchdowns. 2020, he put up 100 catches for 992 yards and eight touchdowns. 2019, he put up 104 catches for 11 or almost 1200 yards and six touchdowns. So the production is there. The production is certainly there. And that's important because again, we talked about consistency and he's been consistently productive. Again, it is in a past heavy offense, which the Baltimore Ravens are certainly not, but still, you love to see stuff like that. So should the Ravens make a move for Kenan Allen if he does come available? I wouldn't be mad at it. He wouldn't be my first choice or even my second choice, but he would not be a bad choice in my opinion. And I mean, he'll be 31. He'll be 31 in about two months. So he's actually a little young for what Ravens prefer, but he's around the age range. So that's cool. But again, maybe he's aging like fine wine. So hopefully that will end up being the case. But now, if in the big if, if they did pursue Kenan Allen, and that would be a very Ravens type of move going after Kenan Allen, Deandre Hopkins, it would not be. Mike Evans, it would not be. And those will be my top choices. Mike Evans, Deandre Hopkins. But like them going after a big name Y receiver via trade. No, I don't see it happening. But with Kenan Allen, older receiver, free agent, it's possible pending potential free agent Y receiver. Somebody again, a little older or whatnot. I know Deandre Hopkins, he's starting to get up there too. But he'll be a cap cut. Kenan Allen will be a cap cut. So this would allow them more leeway when it came to negotiating the contract because they could negotiate something that they were comfortable with. This is why, yeah, we all talk about the Deandre Hopkins and the Mike Evans and stuff like that, but Ravens would have to acquire those guys via trade. So they would have to give up draft capital, which they hardly have any right now. And then they would have to do some restructuring with their contracts and whatnot. So it feel like that's just the headache that the Ravens would not want to get into at this point. I mean, because they already got enough stuff, other stuff that they got to deal with, right? But with this, that's why I feel like with Alan Lazard, that'd be a very Raveness type move. A DJ shark, depending on what happens with him, that will be another one. But this like, and not that they counting on any compics right now, because Ravens are not, I don't think so. I mean, maybe Marcus Peters could maybe get them a compic, but I don't see him commanding anything crazy on open market if Ravens don't bring them back. But any other pending free agents that could command them a compic, I can't think of nobody off the top of my head. But so if they were to sign, like somebody who's a pending free agent, this free agency, they would have signed into a deal big enough that could warn the other team of compic and cancel out one of theirs, like they're not gonna have any to cancel out anyway. So anyway, yeah, if they could get a Keenan Allen, I would be on board with it. He wouldn't be my first option, but I would still be cool with it, but he wouldn't be able to be the only option. So the same way I felt about, now it's much different though. It's the same, but it's different. Sammy Watkins, injury history yikes. Keenan Allen, injury history, oh yeah, he got some injuries here and there. But the same way that I felt about both of them, if the Ravens were to bring them in, I'm cool with it, but that can't be it. That can't be enough. And that can't be all that you do at the wide receiver position. So the more, the merrier. But we'll see what happens. And we'll see if he even gets cut. Cause sometimes these things end up working themselves out to where the player, they end up restructuring, they end up getting cut, then being brought back. Some ends up happening like that. It happens a lot. So this is just potentially, but team keep it clean. My love for y'all is not potential. It is real. It's there. And I appreciate y'all. We are out. Yeah, this feels like a dream. Oh, just what I made. You two team keep it clean. You see my boy, he like automated, automated. Well, that's my homie. Ain't that riding Raven? Riding Raven. Riding Raven. Shout out to Raven.