When it was announced in February that longtime Baltimore Ravens general manager and Vice-President of Player Personnel Ozzie Newsome was planning to step down after the 2018 NFL season, Triton’s trumpet sounded on the end of a football era for the former Bama great and college and pro Hall of Famer. While Newsome admitted that he wasn’t leaving the game nor the Ravens organization entirely, his surrendering of the helm to assistant general manager Eric DeCosta possibly signaled that one of Bama’s most reliable pipelines to the NFL would be diminished.
After all, Newsome is a Bama man, through and through.