Ravens guard Marshal Yanda, a week into a four-year, $37.4 million contract extension that keeps him in the organization through 2019 and could allow him to retire a Raven, said the agreement reached Friday allows him to “stay here and to be able to, hopefully, end on my own terms.”
“It was awesome,” Yanda said Thursday, his first comments about the extension since it was signed. “I wanted to stay here the whole time, and they got pretty serious the last couple of weeks with negotiating. Everything worked out. I’m fired up about it.
“It’s just tough.