Ravens Biggest Storyline Revealed

It's about the point in the offseason for NFL writers to ask what the biggest question every team looks to answer in the fall. Teams are finally starting to fully unite for training camp this week, giving analysts, fans and people inside the league's walls to start guessing how key members of the football world will fare to close 2025.

Unlike some of their peers around the league, embroiled in questions of prime position battles and attempting to smoothly transition between eras, the Baltimore Ravens leave no doubt as to what they're trying to prove this season.

ESPN put it simply: "Is this the year that Lamar Jackson leads the Ravens to a Super Bowl?"

The time's never been better for the Ravens, as desperate to silence critics and return to the NFL mountaintop as they've ever been during their short but successful history. The Kansas City Chiefs, after years of foiling Baltimore's hopes to contend, look vulnerable, and the Ravens' roster is as talented top-to-bottom as that of the Super Bowl-winning Philadelphia Eagles.

The Ravens returned all but four starters from the same team that handily won last year's AFC North, a division that remains questionable below Baltimore.

Jackson, for his part, remains at the peak of his powers, with those final playoff doubts remaining as the final concerns sitting between the 2x MVP and inner-circle NFL immortality.

"There is really no glaring weakness with the Ravens, whose offense led the NFL in total yards last season and whose defense allowed the fewest points (15.4) in the final seven games of 2024," Jamison Hensley wrote. "So, the biggest key for Baltimore is to get through training camp as healthy as possible and learn from past mistakes."

The players know it, too. They've only added to a unit that's well aware of their potential, combining continuity with the on-field talent that could hypothetically beat any team in any setting.

"I'm not going to say we underperformed, but we have underperformed," Ravens cornerback Marlon Humphrey said in the ESPN article. "I feel like we've had championship-caliber rosters. ... I don't think we're far off."