{"id":148121,"date":"2025-08-15T15:24:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T15:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/148121\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T15:24:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T15:24:09","slug":"former-quarterback-steve-beuerlein-believes-its-inevitable-lamar-jackson-wins-a-super-bowl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/148121\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Quarterback Steve Beuerlein Believes It\u2019s Inevitable Lamar Jackson Wins a Super Bowl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  <strong>ESPN Rankings Have Ravens No. 1 Overall and at Three Position Groups<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It certainly wouldn&#8217;t be a surprise if this is the year the Ravens get over the hump, as a strong case can be made that they have the best roster in the league.<\/p>\n<p>Just how loaded the Ravens are was reflected in <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/45908900\/2025-nfl-season-positional-group-best-worst-quarterbacks-cornerbacks-receivers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ESPN\u2019s Mike Clay\u2019s positional rankings<\/a>. Clay ranked all 32 teams at 13 positions and the Ravens took the No. 1 spot at quarterback, tight end, and cornerback. The Detroit Lions, who took the top spot at two positions, were the only other team to be No. 1 in multiple positions.<\/p>\n<p>The Ravens were No. 1 overall.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Baltimore has perhaps its best roster on paper since it won Super Bowl XLVII,&#8221; Clay wrote. &#8220;Jackson is obviously the big difference-maker, but he has a ton of help at the skill positions (including Derrick Henry, Zay Flowers, Mark Andrews and newcomer DeAndre Hopkins) and on the offensive line (led by Ronnie Stanley and Tyler Linderbaum).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Ravens&#8217; defense, which has ranked in the top five leaguewide in sacks each of the past three seasons, returns 10 of its top 11 snap-getters from 2024 (including stars Kyle Hamilton, Marlon Humphrey, Roquan Smith, Kyle Van Noy and Nnamdi Madubuike). They added potential impact players in star corner Jaire Alexander, first-round pick Malaki Starks and second-round pick Mike Green.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Ravens also ranked in the top six at running back (No. 5), safety (No. 5), and offensive line (No. 6).<\/p>\n<p>Their lowest-ranked position group was edge rusher, at No. 22 (no other unit was ranked lower than No. 13). It&#8217;s surprising the Ravens weren&#8217;t higher at edge rusher considering the team was No. 2 in sacks last season and returns two players coming off double-digit sacks in Van Noy (12.5) and Odafe Oweh (10.0).<\/p>\n<p>The defending Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles were No. 2 overall, followed by the Buffalo Bills, Kansas City Chiefs, and Lions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ESPN Rankings Have Ravens No. 1 Overall and at Three Position Groups It certainly wouldn&#8217;t be a surprise&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":148122,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[834,13880,29288,31153,87355,1232,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-148121","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-general","9":"tag-homepage-centerpiece","10":"tag-lamar-jackson","11":"tag-late-for-work","12":"tag-nate-wiggins","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115033477304532552","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}