{"id":767135,"date":"2026-07-16T22:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T22:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/767135\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T22:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T22:35:08","slug":"eric-decosta-everything-pointed-in-right-direction-with-nnamdi-madubuike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/767135\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric DeCosta: Everything pointed in right direction with Nnamdi Madubuike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There were <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/ravens-dt-nnamdi-madubuike-expects-to-play-this-season-after-neck-surgery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">positive reports<\/a> about Ravens defensive tackle Nnamdi Madubuike\u2019s <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/jesse-minter-nnamdi-madubuike-getting-work-in-trending-in-great-direction\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">prospects for playing<\/a> in 2026 throughout the offseason and General Manager Eric DeCosta provided another one on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>Madubuike missed all but two games of the 2025 season with a neck injury that required a surgical repair. During an appearance on 105.7 The Fan that was shared by the team\u2019s website, DeCosta said that there\u2019s optimism about Madubuike\u2019s condition a couple of weeks before the Ravens open up training camp. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think everything looks to be pointed in the right direction, but you\u2019re talking about a different type of injury, <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.baltimoreravens.com\/news\/nnamdi-madubuike-eric-decosta-pointed-right-direction-optimistic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">a different type of circumstance<\/a>,\u201d DeCosta said. \u201cI\u2019m excited about where Nnamdi is, and I think we\u2019ll have more information in the coming weeks. In the next two weeks, I think we\u2019ll have a lot more information that we\u2019ll be able to share with people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Madubuike had 19.5 sacks and 50 quarterback hits over the 2023 and 2024 seasons and he had a pair of sacks in his brief time on the field last year. New head coach Jesse Minter would welcome the return of that kind of production to the defensive line as he tries to get the Ravens back into the playoffs. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There were positive reports about Ravens defensive tackle Nnamdi Madubuike\u2019s prospects for playing in 2026 throughout the offseason&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":767136,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-767135","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\/767135","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=767135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/767136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=767135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=767135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=767135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}