Ravens defensive tackle Nnamdi Madubuike injured his neck in Week 2 and has not played since. He may never play again.<\/p>\n
His future remains in question five months after his injury.<\/p>\n
\u201cI love Nnamdi, but I have no updates at this time,\u201d General Manager Eric DeCosta said Tuesday. <\/p>\n
The Ravens have been hesitant to discuss Madubuike since his injury, with John Harbaugh and DeCosta sidestepping questions during the season. Now, it\u2019s new coach Jesse Minter and DeCosta declining to go into detail with carefully worded answers.<\/p>\n
Minter said he has talked to Madubuike since taking the job.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think that\u2019ll be up to him when the time\u2019s right,\u201d Minter said. \u201cI know he\u2019s in great spirits, and it was great to see him in the building last week or the week prior. We\u2019ll keep the rest of that private.\u201d<\/p>\n
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
DeCosta said the uncertainty of Madubuike\u2019s situation won\u2019t affect their offseason plans.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt doesn\u2019t affect me very much,\u201d DeCosta said. \u201cI think if we have the chance to draft a great defensive tackle, of course we will. It is one of the most important positions in football.<\/p>\n
\u201cSalary cap-wise, it doesn\u2019t have any major impact on us at this time. There are a lot of unknowns when you build a team, and sometimes \u2014 I learned from [executive vice president] Ozzie [Newsome] \u2013 sometimes the best thing to do is just wait for more information, and that\u2019s what we\u2019ll continue to do.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ravens defensive tackle Nnamdi Madubuike injured his neck in Week 2 and has not played since. He may…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":488582,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-488581","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\/488581","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=488581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}