{"id":619627,"date":"2026-05-02T17:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T17:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/619627\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T17:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T17:28:08","slug":"strong-rookie-class-may-help-ravens-recapture-afc-north","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/619627\/","title":{"rendered":"Strong Rookie Class May Help Ravens Recapture AFC North"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year&#8217;s draft class is one of the most important in Ravens history.<\/p>\n<p>During Lamar Jackson&#8217;s career, the Ravens have usually been a playoff team. They&#8217;re not accustomed to having the 14th-overall pick, nor do they often make 11 picks as they did during the 2026 NFL Draft.<\/p>\n<p>Head Coach Jesse Minter and his staff are getting their first up-close look at the new class during this weekend&#8217;s rookie minicamp. Here are my thoughts on the Ravens after their draft haul, all in 50 words or less:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This year&#8217;s draft class is one of the most important in Ravens history. During Lamar Jackson&#8217;s career, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":619628,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[19683,19686,257,11179,349,8396,99],"class_list":["post-619627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-50-words-or-less","tag-clifton-brown","tag-general","tag-homepage-centerpiece","tag-nfl","tag-rookie-minicamp","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619627","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=619627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/619628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}