One month from today, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell will walk to the podium in Las Vegas and say, “With the 14th overall pick in the 2022 NFL Draft, the Baltimore Ravens select…”
The next words out of Goodell’s mouth will be a name, the name of Baltimore’s most important draft selection since Lamar Jackson, and one of the most consequential in team history.
That may sound like an exaggeration, but in 2022, the Ravens will be playing in a completely different National Football League than they did in 2021. The AFC has undergone an arms race of historic proportions, with so many legitimate superstars on the move that it’s foolish to even try to list them all here.