The Ravens have a new two-year deal worth up to $27MM, including $20MM guaranteed, with recently acquired defensive lineman Calais Campbell, according to Ian Rapoport of NFL.com.
Baltimore acquired Campbell for a fifth-round pick from the Jaguars earlier Sunday. Unloading the $15MM cap hit on Campbell’s contract seemed to be the only plausible motive for Jacksonville to move a player of Campbell’s caliber for such a minuscule return. However, the Ravens appear to be lowering that cap number in exchange for some longer-term guarantees.
Campbell has consistently ranked among the best defensive lineman in football over his 12-year career. While Campbell will turn 34 in September, he has yet to show his age much on the field. In fact, Campbell ranked as the second-highest graded edge defender by Pro Football Focus out of the 107 qualified players. Per more traditional metrics, Campbell recorded 56 combined tackles, 10 tackles for loss, and 6.5 sacks.
Not only has Baltimore acquired a difference-maker for their defensive front without sacrificing much draft capital, they now have secured his services for an additional season.
Essentially they traded a kicker for Calais Campbell working back from the trade that got them the pick from Minnesota. I’m curious if this pushes some money to next year so they aren’t holding a 17M cap charge for him this year.
It would’ve been a $15M charge as the $2M proration was left on Jaguars books. This deal is focused on shifting a portion of the money into 2021. I’d bet Campbell’s Cap hit is exceedingly low in 2020 while Brandon Williams is still on the books (could be a cap cut)…
Will this mean he gets out of the SOUP business??
Still dont like or get it. Judon now is up in the air. Trade em now watch grrr
CC brings pressure from the interior. This doesn’t really have anything to do with Judon, though they are probably shopping him.
Good deal for the Ravens. They are a really solid young team and were going to tag and trade Judon who was a key part of that defence.
Now without giving up much at all they have got themselves an experienced defender to make that defence strong and allows them to get rid of Judon.
Would trade Judon to the Giants for Golden Tate and a 3rd round pick. Giving Jackson another talent receiver in Tate would be nice for that offence especially Tate who comes cheap.
You’d open up a lot of cap space by this trade in order to resign some more players from last year
I was really hoping the Jags would Hurst in return from BAL.