Cornerback is one of the most important positions for the Baltimore Ravens, and they’ve shown it over the course of their franchise history. The team addressed that area of their roster in this weekend’s NFL draft by selecting Stanford’s Kyu Blu Kelly in the fifth round, but that doesn’t mean that they are done adding players.
There are plenty of free agent cornerbacks still available, including former Ravens star Marcus Peters. When asked about the cornerback position, including bringing back Marcus Peters, Baltimore general manager Eric DeCosta was honest about the makeup of the roster.
“As we’ve said, the roster is never set. I think what you’ll see is in the coming weeks, there are a lot of potential moves for us to make: free agents, guys that we’ve had, guys that we like who are available. The other point I think – which is a fair point to make as well – is we drafted two young corners last year, and both guys kind of wrestled with injuries this past year. [Jalyn] Armour-Davis and [Damarion] Williams, both. We feel the same way – if those guys were in this year’s Draft, we probably would have drafted them in the same spot, and they’re good, young players. That being said, would we like to potentially add a veteran corner? Yes, I’m sure we would. It’s an important position. What we’ve seen is you can never have enough good corners to start the season and throughout the season. That’s a fast way to get beat, is to not have enough corners on the field.”
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