The Ravens have fielded one of the better secondaries in the NFL for the past couple of seasons, which is interesting considering some of the issues they had in the defensive backfield in prior years. The turnaround, unsurprisingly, came thanks to substantial investment.
In 2015, they re-signed Jimmy Smith long term and in 2016 they drafted Tavon Young. The next year they signed Brandon Carr in free agency and snagged Marlon Humphrey with their first pick in that year’s draft.
It didn’t stop there either, as Maurice Canady was a late pick who’s worked out fairly well when healthy, and they again used a fourth rounder on Anthony Averett in 2018.