{"id":439480,"date":"2026-01-30T20:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T20:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/439480\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T20:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T20:14:08","slug":"jesse-minter-kyle-hamilton-a-weapon-you-want-to-use-near-the-point-of-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/439480\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesse Minter: Kyle Hamilton a weapon you want to use near the point of attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jesse Minter is still getting to know the lay of the land with the Ravens, but the team\u2019s new head coach already has some ideas about how he plans to deploy one of the team\u2019s top defensive players. <\/p>\n<p>Kyle Hamilton is listed as a safety and he\u2019s been voted a first-team All-Pro twice at the position, but he\u2019s lined up in a variety of locations over his four seasons in Baltimore. During a press conference on Thursday, Minter referred to Hamilton as a \u201cweapon\u201d and \u201ca positionless defensive player\u201d that he plans to use as close to the ball as possible this fall. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs much as you can do to get a guy like Kyle near <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.baltimoreravens.com\/news\/jesse-minter-kyle-hamilton-weapon-plans-to-deploy-defense\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">the point of attack<\/a>, I think, is what you try to do as a designer [or] play-caller,\u201d Minter said, via the team\u2019s website.<\/p>\n<p>The Ravens defense fell off from its previous levels during the 2025 season and Minter\u2019s comments suggest Hamilton is going to be a centerpiece of his bid to turn things back around in Baltimore. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jesse Minter is still getting to know the lay of the land with the Ravens, but the team\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":439481,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-439480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}