The biggest change to the Ravens this offseason isn’t a player they added. It’s not a coaching hire. It’s definitely not one of the high value draft picks they landed in last month’s NFL Draft. The biggest change to the Baltimore Ravens wasn’t an addition at all… it was a subtraction. For the NFL’s all-time best rushing offense, losing Hall of Fame caliber guard Marshal Yanda hurts, and it hurts bad.
Thanks to the “next man up” culture created by John Harbaugh and Ozzie Newsome (and continued by Eric DeCosta), there’s always another player in the pipeline, but, in this case, whether that’s second year guard Ben Powers, interior lineman Patrick Mekari, free agent signing D.