A Few Teams Called DeCosta About Trading for Defensive Backs
The Ravens are stacked in their secondary, evidenced by the fact that they kept six safeties and five cornerbacks (plus Arthur Maulet on IR) on their 53-man roster.
That led to phone calls from a few teams as they tried to pry a defensive back away from Baltimore, DeCosta said.
“My mentality is, ‘If you’re strong, stay strong,'” DeCosta said.
“In some years, we’ve traded players, and then you get a couple of injuries and then you look at it and kind of regret it, now you’re happy at draft time, but it makes for some challenges in-season. We just decided this year that we liked our team, and we were going to stand put with the players that we had.”
The Ravens ended up releasing 2022 fourth-round cornerback Damarion “Pepe” Williams, and DeCosta said the decisions would’ve been even more difficult had Trayvon Mullen (shoulder) and Maulet (knee) not suffered injuries.
The Ravens ended up keeping both rookie safeties, seventh-round pick Sanoussi Kane and undrafted rookie Beau Brade.
“The reality is, Beau just played great, and he did it consistently,” DeCosta said. “He won the job. He took the job. And in the end, he deserved being on the team.”
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