WR Henry Ruggs III, Alabama
For plenty of fans, Ruggs would be the ideal pick for the Ravens in the first round. Given the depth this draft class has at wide receiver, Ruggs is the third-best wide receiver on Draft Wire’s position rankings but could still be viewed as a rare true-No. 1 receiver.
Ruggs is a highly-polished wide receiver with game-changing ability. He’s got the deep speed to force defenses into throwing a safety over the top and has the agility with enough physicality to get open on short routes against press coverage with the speed to make any catch a touchdown. He’d immediately become the Ravens’ top receiver.
But that all sounds a little too good to be true for Baltimore. I’ve yet to see a mock draft that has Ruggs falling down to No. 28 and the Ravens aren’t the type of team that trades up in the first round.
On the flip side, the depth at wide receiver in this draft class might see teams hold off on taking one in the first round, looking at other positions for immediate starters instead. Like we saw last year in another really deep wide receiver class, only two wide receivers came off the board in the first round, with Baltimore picking the first one at No. 25.
It seems unlikely Ruggs falls to the Ravens in the first round but weirder things have happened.