On March 15, 2017, the Baltimore Ravens traded Jeremy Zuttah and a sixth-round pick to the San Francisco 49ers to jump up twelve spots in the 2017 NFL Draft. This trade was clearly a success on the Ravens side, as less than five months later the 49ers released Jeremy Zuttah.
Zuttah was an up-and-down player for the Ravens. A clear upgrade from Gino Gradkowski, but he wasn’t the second coming of Matt Birk.
Ozzie must be smiling with this update. He shed $5.8 million in cap before free agency and received a better draft pick (Ravens jumped 12 spots in the sixth round), all the while not losing anything they didn’t already plan to cut.