{"id":702222,"date":"2026-04-03T15:13:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T15:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/702222\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T15:13:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T15:13:14","slug":"ravens-safeties-ranked-as-leagues-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/702222\/","title":{"rendered":"Ravens\u2019 Safeties Ranked As League\u2019s Best"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  <strong>Hamilton, Two Ex-Ravens Are Highest-Paid Players at Their Positions<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Speaking of Hamilton, Verderame looked at the highest-paid player at each position, and unsurprisingly, and deservedly, Hamilton is the market-setter for safeties.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Drafted No. 14 in 2022, Hamilton has quickly become one of the league&#8217;s best players,&#8221; <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/nfl\/top-paid-players-every-position-after-nfl-free-agency-2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Verderame wrote<\/a>. &#8220;A three-time All-Pro, the former Notre Dame standout was given a $100.4 million deal over four seasons, kicking in next season. While the safety position is deep in talent, it&#8217;s tough to see anybody eclipsing Hamilton&#8217;s money in the next few years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Former Ravens Tyler Linderbaum and Jordan Stout cashed in this offseason to become the top earners at center and punter, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Few contracts are genuinely stunning, but what the Raiders signed Linderbaum to certainly qualifies,&#8221; Verderame wrote. &#8220;Las Vegas essentially gave Linderbaum a fully guaranteed $81 million deal over three years, blowing past the previous top contract for a center, which was four years and $72 million for Kansas City&#8217;s Creed Humphrey. It&#8217;ll be quite some time before someone eclipses Linderbaum&#8217;s deal.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Stout reset the market this offseason, jumping from the Ravens to the Giants to join forces with Coach John Harbaugh. At $4.1 million, Stout is coming off a first-team All-Pro campaign in which he averaged 50.1 yards per punt with 24 kicks landing inside the 20-yard line.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hamilton, Two Ex-Ravens Are Highest-Paid Players at Their Positions Speaking of Hamilton, Verderame looked at the highest-paid player&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":702223,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[39],"tags":[834,13880,276358,68973,31153,68762,1232,62,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-702222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-general","tag-homepage-centerpiece","tag-jaylinn-hawkins","tag-kyle-hamilton","tag-late-for-work","tag-malaki-starks","tag-nfl","tag-sports","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116341427933540263","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702222","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=702222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/702223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}