John Harbaugh said coming into the draft that “we won’t chase needs.”
It worked out that the Ravens didn’t have to.
The draft board fell in a way that allowed the Ravens to address the biggest holes on their roster, while also snagging highly graded players who were available much later than expected.
“We scratched a lot of itches,” Harbaugh said soon after Ravens’ draft concluded. “Our needs and the types of things that are going to make our team better – specifically by position or by the type of player and where they were strategically found in the draft by Eric [DeCosta] and Ozzie [Newsome] and Joe [Hortiz] – I just thought it was masterful.