Six weeks before the start of free agency, Eric DeCosta was confident that the Ravens could re-sign whichever player they needed to. He also conceded that the Ravens couldn’t re-sign everyone they wanted to.
“We could pretty much sign anybody we want to sign if we could get a deal done,” DeCosta said at his Feb. 4 season-ending news conference. He later added: “You can’t sign everybody back; that’s a fact of this game.”
As the Ravens plot a path forward this offseason, trying to plug their many roster holes through the draft and free agency, it’s unclear just how much they’ll be willing to spend on players outside Baltimore. DeCosta doesn’t have much salary cap space. Nor does he have the ability to easily free up tens of millions of dollars. Nor does he have the appetite to sign players who might cost the Ravens compensatory picks.
