When the Baltimore Ravens drafted linebacker Kamalei Correa in the second round of the 2016 NFL Draft, the logical assumption was that they envisioned him as lining up on the outside, with aging pass rushers on either side of the defense and having lost some key depth players in free agency over the past two years there.
But the Ravens also lost starting inside linebacker Daryl Smith in free agency in 2016, and they didn’t really do anything to replace him, hoping instead to cobble together an answer internally. It now appears that part of the equation in finding that answer is the rookie Correa.