BALTIMORE — After three days, two nights and 11 Ravens draft picks, Eric DeCosta entered the auditorium inside the team’s Owings Mills facility late Saturday afternoon, sat next to coach John Harbaugh, offered his thanks and repeated every NFL general manager’s favorite springtime line.
“I think we’re a better football team today than we were last week,” he said.
That was long the expectation in Baltimore, where team officials had targeted this year’s deep draft as a vital roster-building opportunity. Almost five months after the end of a frustrating 8-9 season, the Ravens entered the first round Thursday with 10 picks. They left Saturday with 11 selections, including two in the top 25 and 10 among the first 141 overall.
