{"id":205249,"date":"2026-03-25T10:12:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T10:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/205249\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T10:12:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T10:12:18","slug":"rueben-bain-jr-draft-slide-dream-looks-unlikely-for-ravens-after-pro-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/205249\/","title":{"rendered":"Rueben Bain Jr. Draft Slide Dream Looks Unlikely for Ravens After Pro Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

NFL Network\u2019s Daniel Jeremiah<\/a> projects Bain to the Washington Commanders at No. 7 in his latest mock draft, which was released even before his pro day. ESPN\u2019s Field Yates<\/a> has Bain at No. 8 to the New Orleans Saints. The Athletic\u2019s Dane Brugler<\/a> and ESPN\u2019s Mel Kiper Jr.<\/a> mocked Bain at No. 9 to the Kansas City Chiefs. There’s even some buzz after his pro day that Bain could go as high as No. 2<\/a> to the New York Jets.<\/p>\n

Per ESPN Research, no edge rusher over the past two decades has been drafted in the first round with sub-31-inch arms. It appears that Bain will be the exception.<\/p>\n

The Ravens are likely looking for another pass rusher to pair with Trey Hendrickson, Tavius Robinson, and Mike Green, especially after the Maxx Crosby trade fell through. But General Manager Eric DeCosta said one of the reasons why Baltimore took a big swing to get Hendrickson was because they needed more immediate help than the draft could reliably provide \u2013 even with pick No. 14.<\/p>\n

“I think that in looking at the draft being positioned where we were, strategically, it was going to be challenging to probably get a guy that we thought could come in right away and really impact us at the edge,” DeCosta said.<\/p>\n

“Not to say that there won’t be guys, but just looking at it, we felt like the guys that we would probably covet the most in the draft would be gone maybe before [pick No.] 14. It’s typically what happens.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NFL Network\u2019s Daniel Jeremiah projects Bain to the Washington Commanders at No. 7 in his latest mock draft,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205250,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73696,2239,19656,19652,123,125,124,6005,21269],"class_list":["post-205249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-draft","tag-general","tag-homepage-latest-headlines","tag-inline-news","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-rueben-bain-jr","tag-ryan-mink"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}