The last two offseasons, the Baltimore Ravens have let Tyler Huntley leave in free agency.
But each time, they end up with him back in their organization at some point during the season.
Clearly at this point, the Ravens feel good about Huntley being the backup QB to Lamar Jackson.
But what happens if they let the pending free agent leave again, but this time his new team keeps him around? Then the Ravens are in a worse spot if Jackson misses time.
NFL.com's Nick Shook laid out the rather obvious case for the Ravens simply keeping Huntley around this time.
"Ideally, Jackson never leaves the field, but recent history has proven Huntley to be a valuable backup for the Ravens -- more valuable, in fact, than their strange experiment with obvious poor fit Cooper Rush -- so why not save us all the time and paperwork and just keep Huntley in house this offseason?" Shook wrote on Friday.
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Rush was brought over from the Dallas Cowboys before the 2025 season to be Jackson's new backup. The problem with Rush is that he's not a particularly mobile QB, so plugging him in for Jackson requires running an almost entirely different version of the offense.
It didn't go well early in the 2025 campaign. Rush got two starts and lost them both.
That's when Huntley took over and got a win in the last game before Jackson initially returned, and then Huntley got more work later in the year when Jackson got hurt again.
No reason to mess around with Huntley's future this time if you're the Ravens. Just get the dude signed to a contract.
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