 Ravens fans have had a lot of debates amongst each other on exactly what the team should do at pick number 14. And that is because some people feel like they should build up the offensive line with that pick. Other people feel like they should build up the defensive line with that pick. And other people just flat out want somebody that's a playmaker. But no matter what your choice or preference is when it comes to the 14th overall pick, don't forget Ravens still got like 50 other picks in the draft. But somebody who is a draft expert, I had to bring them on so we could really dive into what the Ravens should do at pick number 14 and who would be the best offensive linemen that they could select from. And if they don't go to offensive line, then who would be some of the other great options? I just want to say in advance, this may be a little long. So I have been thinking about what is the best route the Ravens should be taking heading into the draft. There are a couple routes that they could take, but the Ravens must get out of their comfort zone. The routes they could take are number one, addressing the offensive line with Trevor Penning or Charles Cross. They are both in the top five at their position in the draft, and they both have great size. It addresses a need on the offensive line, especially with the unknowns that we have on that line. So when it comes to Trevor Penning and Charles Cross, and these are two names that have been coming up a lot, especially amongst the Ravens, more so Trevor Penning more than Charles Cross. But how do you feel each of those guys could fit into what the Ravens are doing? And if the Ravens did select either one of the two, do you think it would be a good move for a good choice? Yeah. So for me, the guys are a little bit different. I have Charles Cross ranked higher than Trevor Penning. To me, Cross is borderline top two tackle. Some people have them at one overall. Some people have them at three. It just depends on the flavor you're looking for. But I just really like his game. He's extremely athletic, tested very well. But if you go to his tape, this is a guy that really knows how to pass block. And that was a big part of their offense. They were airing it out a ton. So he's already NFL ready as a pass blocker. And he's not bad in run blocking like a lot of people kind of assume. He's very solid there. And I think he's growing because he's working with Duke Manny Weather, a great offensive line coach. So I'm very excited at the idea of getting Charles Cross in here. He could start if Ronnie Stanley is still not healthy at the left side. And I think the transition to the right tackle would also be pretty simple for him. He has all the movement skills. It would just take some time. Trevor Penning, on the other hand, is a good player who plays with a nasty streak. Sometimes it's a little bit after the whistle. That's fine. I think he would be a loved player, loved character in Baltimore. His talent just isn't the same level for me. He gets knocked back from bull rushers in his FCS competition. He does have strength and he's very athletic. He can move, but I don't think he's figured out how to harness that. And he's not quite the technician that you would like at 14 overall. If you move back, I could definitely see it as a fit. But Charles Cross is somebody that you would have to pick at 14 if he somehow fell that far. Okay. I appreciate that breakdown. Now part two, grabbing another cornerback, either Derek Stingley Jr. or Ahmaud Sauss Gardner. If they go this route, it all depends on if Tavon Young, well, we saw that happen, and Anthony Averett leave and we don't pick up a JC Jackson in free ages. I would love that. But I just, I don't see it happening. Anyway, he said, uh, we saw how every year, no matter how much we don't want it to happen, the cornerback room always goes down and having quality depth is never a bad thing. This also gives you different ways to use your cornerbacks on defense. So you had to choose between one of the two, Derek Stingley Jr. or Sauss Gardner. What did it be and why? And that, that's a tough one as a really tough one. So good. Uh, man, I think Stingley has the higher upside. Oh, Stingley has the higher upside. The problem is his injury, his injury history is, is a little bit rough 2020 and 2021. He was never fully healthy and his most recent injury, I believe is a Liz Frank. That is really tough on speed athletes. So like Hollywood Brown, similar thing yet screws in his foot, you know, Derek Stingley ran for three in high school, which is ridiculous in his 40. Most high school athletes improve their speed, obviously, as, as they get into college and afterwards. So you know, he's an athlete. The ball skills are 100% there. And I think his versatility gives, gives him the edge over Sauss Gardner. I think Stingley can play in the slot a little bit more and move around formation, maybe follow guys. Sauss is athletic and he's long. He's, he's kind of what we like in Baltimore, physical corner, kind of Jimmy Smith, Marlon Humphrey, maybe he has shades of Marcus Peters in his game. But just he's more, he's more Jimmy and, and Marlon for me than, than Marcus, but it's really tough. I think Sauss is like your, your bump and run physical press man corner. And I think Stingley is a do it all corner. Oh, okay. I appreciate that. So part three, he said draft a pass Russia on the outside to pair with someone we could get on the interior via free agency. Now I would like to bring Jonathan Allen over from Washington. I think he is a great young interior pass Russia and a run stop. Now drafting someone like George Carlisle or Jermaine Johnson to pair with away and Allen if we were to get him would be scary. So this is going off based off if the Ravens did get somebody like a Jonathan Allen. So George Carlisle Jermaine Johnson, how would they fit in with the Ravens? Either of those guys would be exciting. Right now, I will tell you Jermaine Johnson's higher on my board. I just, I love the player. He obviously was at UGA prior to going to FSU. So go dogs there. He developed and really took steps forward as a pass rusher. And I think his game is extremely complete. He's very strong against the run. He has multiple pass rush plans. He can bowl rush. He can speed rush. He can dip and rip. He's kind of got it all the whole package. So he since he's the higher rated player, I would take him over George Carlisle. But Carlisle perhaps has the ceiling of an Eric Kendricks or I might have said the name wrong. We'll play for Vikings. No, no, no, my bad. I'm thinking of Hendrickson on the Cincinnati Bengals. The end. Tray Hendrickson. I don't know how I did that, but yeah, so more of a power, powerful edge rusher that kind of surprises people. I think he would be a good player, but as far as I can tell, he's falling in mocks and he's falling in the perception of fans and people around the league. So I would be happy with him, but more so in a trade down. And he could have a very solid career. I'm not sure that his ceiling is as high as a Jermaine Johnson. Okay. All right. And then the last part draft the game changing wide receiver, but they have to be game changing like teams will have to respect him when he gets out there on that field. We see the route that the Bengals took with Jamal Chase. And I wonder will teams try to copy that now if the Ravens were to do that, you would have Bateman, Andrews, Brown and a player to draft like Drake London, who's 65, Jamison Williams is coming off the torn ACL, who was the best wide receiver in college this season or Chris Olave, who has been a stud at Ohio State and is also six foot one. Adding one of these players would make teams look at us differently, but we also have to use them to their strengths as well. So something that I've been saying that I think the Ravens are going to do is take a wide receiver in one of the first three rounds. And I still believe it. I believe it for a while now and I'm still running with that. But out of these guys, Drake London, Jamison Williams, Chris Olave, who will be the best fit for Baltimore if they went that route. They're all exciting players. I would say Drake London is the best fit. A lot of people in the Ravens community, as far as I can tell, want a big X wide receiver. I think Bateman can play the X just fine. I think he can be the number one wide receiver for the Ravens as well. But if you're adding a guy to the room, the different skill set is important. A lot of guys, Daniel Jeremiah, being one of them, likes to talk about a wide receiver room kind of like a basketball team. You have the five different spots. And if you fill out your receiving core that way, it can do wonders for matchups. So if you have a Drake London, this big skyscraper out there, it kind of gives you shades of T. Higgins and what the Cincinnati Bengals have. So I really like the idea in that way for London. I'll go ahead and talk about the other guys as well. Jameson Williams was probably wide receiver one for me, just in terms of where I expect the league to pick before his injury. He is the most explosive athlete in this draft at wide receiver. He's a game changer, a yak machine, yards after the catch. He's not the same kind of player as Devo Samuel, but he's faster. So yeah, he's very exciting. I would be very much in on him if we knew Hollywood's future was not looking great. So like it's kind of a replacement. Bring him in, have both of them for a little while. And then if Hollywood has to go, at least you have Jameson Williams. So he has that speed element. I love the fit there. And then Chris Alave is also a fast receiver. He ran very well. He's a little bit more of a vertical threat than he is in every level of the field type wide receiver at this point. But I do think he does have a big routery in his game already. Last year there were comparisons between Chris Alave and Rashad Bateman. So maybe they're a tiny bit synonymous. Which is why he would probably, for me, be lower than the other two, but I do like his game a lot and I think he would be a perfectly good fit in Baltimore. It'd just be maybe a little similar to Rashad. Next question came from my boy Sean. He said, what's up in Graven? Hope all is well with you and the family. And the dog too. Appreciate that. He said, I'm going to keep this show to sweet this time. My opinion on the Lamar Jackson contract is that he is holding out to see how and what the Ravens do to rebuild the offensive line to see what he has to play with in the next five years. Is Ronnie Stanley healthy? How about Joanne James? Do we draft the wrestler guy from Wisconsin? One of the best big man on the Ravens ever was Kelly Gregg and he was undersized. But a couple of times he was a state champion from New Jersey. Ray Lewis was also undersized, but he was a state wrestling champion from Miami. And so was this guy from Wisconsin, the center, and we are losing Bradley Bozeman. I truly believe that Lamar is trying to gauge how well he's protected in the upcoming years versus when he signs the contract. Yeah, you got me some targets good. Yeah, we got running backs good. But what about this offensive line? It cannot be the past where I want to pass the ball, but I have to continue to scramble when I don't want to because of the lack of quality of protection. Tell me what you think about that. And if you were in his shoes, wouldn't you feel the same about your future? Because your whole career, you have not been called a quarterback, but in your heart you know you're a quarterback. You have the good work and I continue to watch and support. Love what you do, brother. One love. We appreciate that, man. So Jake, what do you think the reason is that Lamar Jackson hasn't signed his deal yet? It could be a number of things. I think he is a little bit one track mind type player. Since he's been in Baltimore, he wants to win a Super Bowl. That's all he talks about. That's all him and Hollywood talk about. And if that's his main motivation, then he's going to be more focused on that than getting a deal done, which could be part of it. Another side to it, he was recently on the shop with LeBron James and many other people and he was talking to them. He has goals to be a champion, like I mentioned, and he also wants to be a billionaire at some point. So through the end of his life, he wants to be a billionaire. He could try to get a nice deal right now, or he could still wait this thing out, let other quarterbacks like Kyler Murray sign. We'll figure out if the Aaron Rodgers deal is official. I think Aaron Rodgers actually commented on Twitter that it wasn't actually what they said. He could just be waiting. He's happy because this year he'll be making much more money than he's ever made in the 20 millions for this fifth year option and then there's still franchise tag and there's the Super Bowl. So if he wins the Super Bowl, he's going to be able to ask anything he wants really. Look at what Steve Bishati gave to Joe Flacco all the way back after the 2012 season in the 2013 year. He got that huge deal at the time. It's very layered, but Lamar wants to win. I think he's going to be a raven for a long time. The team wants him and it's just a lot of different things that go into it. Oh yeah, for sure. One that you mentioned when you brought up Joe Flacco, there was no way Bishati could turn him down. You can't say no to that. He literally just won the Super Bowl. And I'm sure Bishati was probably thinking like, man, we should have had this guy signed last year, but they just couldn't get it done. But I'm sure he didn't regret getting another Super Bowl and just having to cough up some extra cash. So yeah, Lamar goes out there and wins the Super Bowl. Yeah, Bishati, they can't tell him no for anything. But I do think, yeah, it's a mix of things. I really do think he wants to see how this team builds around them, what they put in front of him. And not just at offensive line, just really how they construct this roster as a whole. Can they build a quality roster? Again, because they did a pretty good job overall last year, but of course, injuries ended up taking over. And I think he just really wants to see how that market is reset. Because he, again, you brought it up, the fifth year option. He's making a little over 23 mil this year, and it's all guaranteed. The worst case scenario, not even necessarily for him, but for the Ravens, is even next year, they put the franchise tag on it. He will still get a boatload of cash, and it will literally all be guaranteed 100%. Now, the backside of that is that it's only a one-year deal. So there's no long-term guarantee. But in the here, the now, well, when that time comes, if that time comes, then it will be fully guaranteed. So he would get all of his money. And then worst case scenario, again, if they do franchise tag him for two years in a row, then he will get that much more guaranteed money. So this thing, I don't think he signs this offseason. But I think this thing is going to go down a little road. But I'm going to be, I'm very interested to see what route Lamar takes, what route the Ravens take. And this should be like it always is every single year fun offseason. Next question came from my guy Antonio. He said, Yoan Graven, how's it going, man? Much love to you and the fam again from B-more Holly. It's been a minute since I wrote, and I wanted to get straight to the point. Then the Ravens go bold and double dip on defense in the first round by drafting Sauce Gardner with the 14th pick and trading up again for Jordan Davis with the 16th pick, with the Eagles giving them our second round pick, our early third and the last two fourth round picks. Getting these guys would mean the world to me seeing them in the Ravens uniform. Yeah, I know we need an offensive line around Lamar, but I honestly feel like we can do that in free agency. I just feel as though we can get through next season so much better if we address the draft and free agency this way. Bring in the center, Ryan Jensen and linebacker Zadaria Smith with Honey Badger as a free safety OMG, we'd be 2022 Super Bowl chance, man, LOL. Oh, that's some aggression right there. That's very aggressive. If Ravens did that, I know a lot of Ravens fans can be kind of torn on this issue, especially because I know so many people, they focus on the first round pick and that's it. They focus on the first round to the draft and that's it. A lot of people feel like, all right, if they don't address offensive line in the first round, then they're not providing for Lamar Jax. I can understand the argument in a way. I know first round, those are usually the highest quality players. Those are the best of the best and well, not always necessarily because you can't have some gyms and whatnot, some hidden guys, some guys that just break out and they take over. So the first round is not the end all, be all, but I feel like as far as offensive line, it's not, it doesn't have to only be determined through the draft. We do have free agency that's coming up and the Ravens could address it there. They have a lot of options and guys are being cut now, like left and right. You got guys on the trade block. So you have some different things that you could do with the offensive line as far as really upgrading it. And of course, you hope, you really hope that this is the year that Ronnie Stanley, he got his ankle fully cleaned up and he'll be good to go. There won't be any setbacks. There won't be any injury issues, but you just never know. You hope with Jawan James that if they do end up keeping him, because I know they could save a little bit of cap space if they release them. But if they do end up keeping them, you hope that he can contribute as well. But you can't bank on those guys. So Ravens and free agency, they could get some stuff done. Now, when I first listened to this trade, this trade up, so taking sauce with the 14th pick and then trading up for Jordan Davis with the 16th pick, I was thinking, all right, he probably gonna say give him like a 2023 first round or something, but you said, no, no first round is included. He said, give them our second round pick and our early third round pick and our last two fourth round picks. I wouldn't be mad at that at all. Not one bit, but what about you, Jay? How do you feel about if the Ravens were to make this move? So drafting sauce with the 14th pick, then trading back into the first round and taking Jordan Davis and addressing offensive line and free agency. I'm here for it. I was kind of surprised, just like you, with the compensation that the Ravens would have to shell out there. Just second, third, fourth round picks to get back into the middle of the first round, I was like, all right, if the JJ chart says it, I'm going with it because this is aggressive, but those are two players I love in this draft. So I'm here for it. A more likely move, in my opinion, would be trading it to the back end of the first round rather than all the way, you know, pretty much right after the Ravens had picked. But both of the players, I mean, I'm not arguing that. All right. Next question came from my guy, Zach. He said, ain't great. What are your thoughts on trading up in the draft to the top three pick to pick Evan Neil, the man is a beast. This would likely mean parting with our 14th overall pick and then some, but with the Bama connection and the serious needed offensive line, there would be an immediate impact player for the short term and the long term. I know O-line is going to be a focus with the draft. So why not go all in on the best lineman in the class? He's even an insurance policy for Ronnie Stanley, if he isn't ready to go. And without a doubt is a future all pro. Thanks for sharing positivity and good vibes in your streams and go Ravens. So we talked about some different aggressive moves throughout this video, but this is probably the most aggressive one. Trading up to the top three and getting Evan Neil. What do you feel if the Ravens did that? Yeah, I would love for the Ravens to move up a little bit to get one of the top three offensive linemen, but three is a little rich for me. I think it would cost a, you know, a very good amount for the Ravens to have to do that. Evan Neil also is not my highest rated offensive tackle. You know, it varies for some people. I love Ikea Kwanu out of NC State. He is, he's my kind of offensive lineman, just pancakes, guys left and right. He's nasty, but he does it in a controlled way on a down to down basis. Trevor Penning, like I said, sometimes he plays, not just through the whistle, he plays after the whistle. Just try to get guys mad. I think a Kwanu is just a different kind of animal out there. So he would be my trade up target if the Ravens wanted to do that. I'd also be happy with Cross. Neil, sure, three is too rich for me.