Ravens General Manager Eric DeCosta is heading into the 2026 NFL draft with his first pick coming at No. 14. Which is right around where DeCosta thinks the talent in this draft starts to drop off.<\/p>\n
DeCosta said that when he evaluates the overall talent level available this year, he sees a strong first half of the first round, but a weaker second half.<\/p>\n
\u201cFirst round, there\u2019s definitely a drop off probably midway through the round in terms of talent,\u201d DeCosta said.<\/p>\n
DeCosta said the overall talent level this year is \u201ca little less than last year.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have just under 200 players that we have ranked as draftable for us,\u201d DeCosta said. \u201cIf the board came off exactly the same way as we have it, we\u2019d have to go outside of that to finish our draft because there\u2019s over 250 picks.\u201d<\/p>\n
DeCosta disputed the notion that his willingness to trade away his first-round pick for Maxx Crosby indicates he didn\u2019t think the 14th pick in this year\u2019s draft is particularly valuable.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re excited to have the pick this year at 14,\u201d DeCosta said. \u201cWe think we\u2019re going to get a really good player.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ravens General Manager Eric DeCosta is heading into the 2026 NFL draft with his first pick coming at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":587514,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-587513","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\/587513","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=587513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/587514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}