Official Site of the Ravens · May 3, 2015
Eisenberg: Ravens Find Value After Other Teams Make Mistakes
Teams littered the first round with possible busts-in-the making, enabling Baltimore to swoop in.
A team can accomplish a lot with a draft class, and it appears the Ravens, with their nine picks, certainly did.
They invigorated their receiving corps with four new targets for quarterback Joe Flacco. They found pound-for-pound replacements for departed puzzle pieces such as Torrey Smith, Bernard Pierce and Pernell McPhee. They added depth where they need it most on defense, at tackle, cornerback and rush end, and where they always need it on offense, along the line.
As Head Coach John Harbaugh said Saturday, “we scratched a lot of itches.”
