{"id":54514,"date":"2025-06-09T03:07:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T03:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=54514"},"modified":"2025-06-09T03:07:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T03:07:12","slug":"ravens-trade-proposal-sends-mark-andrews-to-afc-rival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=54514","title":{"rendered":"Ravens Trade Proposal Sends Mark Andrews to AFC Rival"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"c-content entry-content\">\n<div id=\"post-featured-container-id\">\n<div id=\"post-featured\" class=\"wp-caption \">\n<div class=\"h-responsive\">\n<figure class=\"h-responsive__inner\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-featured-image size-featured-image wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/GettyImages-2182716525-e1749418077199.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 95vw, 780px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/GettyImages-2182716525-e1749418077199.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780 780w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/GettyImages-2182716525-e1749418077199.jpg?quality=15&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1100 1100w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/GettyImages-2182716525-e1749418077199.jpg?quality=35&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1350 1350w\" alt=\"Mark Andrews\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" data-img-load-time=\"475\" data-dom-ready-time=\"623\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"caption-credit\">Getty<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"c-post-image-caption-text\">The Baltimore Ravens can send Mark Andrews to an AFC rival in exchange for a solid draft pick.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Offloading\u00a0Mark Andrews\u00a0continues to be a will they or won\u2019t they conundrum for the\u00a0Baltimore Ravens, but the franchise could be tempted to swap the 30-year-old tight end for early-round compensation in the 2026 NFL draft, even if it means sending the All-Pro to an AFC rival.<\/p>\n<p>The trade proposal involves the\u00a0Los Angeles Chargers, a team not short of connections to the Ravens. Most notably thanks to the presence of offensive coordinator Greg Roman, under whose watch Andrews played the best football of his career.<\/p>\n<p>Roman would be grateful to the AFC West outfit for sending a third-round choice in next year\u2019s draft to Baltimore. There was a time when an early- to mid-round pick wouldn\u2019t have been enough to tempt the Ravens into even considering dealing Andrews, but things have changed.<\/p>\n<p>The change owe a lot to the disastrous end to last season endured by the usually dependable veteran. Andrews is also under threat from the growing importance of a younger, more athletic and versatile player at his position.<\/p>\n<h2>Trade With Chargers Best Outcome for Ravens<\/h2>\n<p>This\u00a0isn\u2019t the first time\u00a0the idea of shipping Andrews to\u00a0L.A. has been mooted. There\u2019s a reason it\u2019s such a popular idea.<\/p>\n<p>Roman\u2019s ownership of the call sheet, as well as the presence of head coach Jim Harbaugh, brother of Ravens\u2019 boss John, is changing how the Chargers attack defenses. The Bolts are building the same overtly physical and smash-mouth offense Roman called for years at M&amp;T Bank Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a system based on bludgeoning opponents on the ground with relentless running, while using similar brute force in a high-percentage and risk-averse passing game. The Chargers already have one bruising target, second-year wide receiver\u00a0Ladd McConkey, but Andrews would be the underneath outlet they need.<\/p>\n<p>He still knows how to work between the numbers and get open inside the red zone. Those same qualities helped No. 89 snag\u00a0107 catches from 153 targets\u00a0back in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>That was a banner year for Andrews, but he\u2019d also helped quarterback\u00a0Lamar Jackson\u00a0to be named NFL MVP two years earlier. Jackson targeted Andrews 98 times during a breakout campaign, connecting with the tight end for 10 touchdowns.<\/p>\n<p>Andrews actually caught a career-best 11 touchdown passes last season, but the one scoring grab that got away continues to haunt him.<\/p>\n<h2>Mark Andrews Primed for Fresh Start<\/h2>\n<p>Letting what would have been the game-tying two-point conversion slip through his hands against the\u00a0Buffalo Bills\u00a0in the Divisional Playoffs put a blot on a fine career for Andrews. It also\u00a0led to some gruelling soul-searching\u00a0for the seven-year pro.<\/p>\n<p>Andrews is ready to go again, but the Ravens hardly need him to when\u00a0Isaiah Likely\u00a0is emerging as the\u00a0superpower of their offense. Likely is a roving mismatch who can beat coverage in more ways than Andrews and is also becoming a go-to target for Jackson in clutch situations and broken plays.<\/p>\n<p>Jackson\u2019s greater reliance on Likely isn\u2019t the only problem for Andrews. His role is also under siege from the growing value of wideouts in the offense called by Roman\u2019s successor Todd Monken.<\/p>\n<p>The latter\u2019s more expansive schemes have been\u00a0good for history-making\u00a0and newly paid\u00a0Rashod Bateman, while\u00a0Zay Flowers\u00a0could be in line to\u00a0run more inside routes during his third year.<\/p>\n<p>Flowers working the middle of the field more often would be bad news for Andrews. He can also count on five-time Pro Bowler\u00a0DeAndre Hopkins\u00a0taking away his fair share of targets, especially with Monken\u00a0already redefining the veteran\u2019s role.<\/p>\n<p>The competition for catches is getting crowded and intense. Even more so than last season, when Andrews experienced issues with\u00a0playing time and targets.<\/p>\n<p>He eventually played his way back into prominence, but that\u2019s going to be tougher this year. Better for Andrews to join the Chargers and instantly become a safety valve for strong-armed passer\u00a0Justin Herbert.<\/p>\n<p>Better for the Ravens to act quickly and secure solid draft capital for an experienced player who looks like he\u2019s starting to pass his peak.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getty The Baltimore Ravens can send Mark Andrews to an AFC rival in exchange for a solid draft pick. 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