While recording an episode on the Move the Sticks podcast with co-host Daniel Jeremiah, Bucky Brooks named Ravens tight end Mark Andrews as the Ravens most indispensable player (they didn’t include quarterbacks for obvious reasons), which was a surprise to me at first. The first player that came to mind before Brooks named Mark Andrews was safety Earl Thomas III, Baltimore’s big-ticket free agent acquisition. Although I didn’t agree at first, my opinion changed after listening to Brooks’ reasoning:
“I know on the surface people say what, why Mark Andrews?