{"id":565472,"date":"2026-03-28T00:32:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T00:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/565472\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T00:32:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T00:32:14","slug":"report-ravens-have-growing-optimism-about-nnamdi-madubuikes-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/565472\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Ravens have &#8220;growing optimism&#8221; about Nnamdi Madubuike&#8217;s future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ravens defensive tackle Nnamdi Madubuike injured his neck in Week 2 and did not play again in 2025. General Manager Eric <br \/>DeCosta said at the Scouting Combine that the Ravens had no answers about Madubuike\u2019s future.<\/p>\n<p>Jamison Hensley of ESPN now reports that the Ravens have \u201cgrowing optimism\u201d that Madubuike will return from his injury.<\/p>\n<p>The team has shown hesitancy in discussing Madubuike since his injury.<\/p>\n<p>Madubuike, a two-time Pro Bowler, has two years remaining on a four-year, $98 million extension. His 2026 base salary of $22 million is fully guaranteed, and he has a salary cap hit of $31 million. <\/p>\n<p>From the start of 2023 until he was placed on injured reserve Sept. 27, Madubuike\u2019s 21.5 sacks were the most for any NFL defensive tackle. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ravens defensive tackle Nnamdi Madubuike injured his neck in Week 2 and did not play again in 2025.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":565473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":["post-565472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=565472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/565473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}