Do Ravens Need To Draft Tucker's Replacement?

As such, the Ravens are considering drafting Tucker’s replacement as his investigation continues. That takes them to the quickly approaching 2025 NFL Draft.

“I think there’s a lot of good kickers in the draft, from what I’m told,” Harbaugh said to reporters Monday morning, via The Athletic. “(Senior special teams coach) Randy Brown is out there. He’s been putting up the frequent flyer miles all over the country. … It’s like tracking Santa on Christmas Eve. I’m tracking Randy on the evaluation of kickers right now. He’s doing a great job with that.”

Among the top kickers in the NFL Draft are Pittsburgh’s Ben Sauls, Alabama’s Graham Nicholson, and Miami’s Andres Borregales. Kickers are rarely considered likely to be drafted, but if a team wants to get a jump on the undrafted free agent process, Day 3 is generally an acceptable time to roll the dice on one.

Tucker also struggled on the field in 2024, hitting a worryingly low percentage of his field goals (73.3 percent; over 13 points worse than 2023). For the first time since 2015, he did not make the Pro Bowl. That in itself could be more than enough evidence to start looking for Baltimore’s next kicker. With significant off-field concerns squarely headlining his profile, that could very well be accelerated.

“Obviously, there’s a lot of layers to that whole conversation,” Harbaugh said. “But it’s something we have to do, no matter what, at this point in time. You’ve always got to do your due diligence. We’ll be prepared to do that on draft day if we feel like we need to and if the right guy’s there.”

The Ravens don’t need to draft a kicker, although that’s not a defense of Tucker. The position just doesn’t hit at a high enough rate to justify real draft capital, and undrafted free agency is ripe with kickers that are similarly successful.

Regardless of when one is acquired, the Ravens are almost certain to add a kicker in some capacity in the coming weeks.