How Ravens Saved Themselves Millions
Signing shutdown cornerback Jimmy Smith was perhaps the Ravens’ biggest move of the offseason, yet the news was buried by the NFL schedule release. So it’s important we circle back to it.
Not only did the Ravens lock up one of the league’s top young cornerbacks and stabilize their secondary for years to come, but they may have gotten Smith at a bargain.
“If the going rate for free-agent cornerbacks this offseason is any indication, the Ravens might have saved themselves millions of dollars by signing Smith now and not allowing him to hit unrestricted free agency next year,” wrote Jeff Zrebiec and Aaron Wilson of The Baltimore Sun.