{"id":874323,"date":"2026-10-07T20:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T20:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/874323\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T20:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T20:18:08","slug":"ravens-sign-tight-end-nick-vannett-to-53-man-roster-following-durham-smythe-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/874323\/","title":{"rendered":"Ravens Sign Tight End Nick Vannett to 53-Man Roster Following Durham Smythe Injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ravens have signed tight end Nick Vannett to their 53-man roster, pulling the veteran up from the practice squad to help offset the loss of Durham Smythe.<\/p>\n<p>Smith will <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break:break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.baltimoreravens.com\/news\/durham-smythe-torn-achilles-ravens-tight-end-out-for-season\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">reportedly miss the remainder of the season<\/a> after suffering a torn Achilles in the Ravens&#8217; Week 4 win over the Tennessee Titans.<\/p>\n<p>Vannett is a 6-foot-6 tight end who, like Smythe, excels in blocking. He&#8217;s in his 11th season with 121 games and 54 starts under his belt. The Ravens originally signed him to their practice squad on Sept. 2.<\/p>\n<p>Vannett split last season between the Minnesota Vikings and Los Angeles Rams, playing in 10 games. He wasn&#8217;t targeted by any passes and saw 55 total snaps.<\/p>\n<p>He had a larger role the year before with the Tennessee Titans, starting 10 games and playing 37% of the snaps. He caught 17 passes for 135 yards and three touchdowns.<\/p>\n<p>The Ravens have Mark Andrews leading the room and rookies Matt Hibner and Josh Cuevas may be asked to play bigger roles.<\/p>\n<p>The Ravens have also brought back fullback Lucas Scott to their practice squad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ravens have signed tight end Nick Vannett to their 53-man roster, pulling the veteran up from the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":874324,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[257,2593,17263,368100,349,176299,11178,99,6182],"class_list":["post-874323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-general","tag-homepage-latest-headlines","tag-inline-news","tag-lucas-scott","tag-nfl","tag-nick-vannett","tag-ryan-mink","tag-sports","tag-transactions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874323","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=874323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/874324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}