Home is where the heart is. Finding your home in a roster spot with an NFL team, like the Ravens, is one of the hardest things and the highest privileges in the country. However, don’t think you can get too cozy. You must meet a standard and perform to the highest of abilities both physically and mentally or you could face the dreaded cut from your NFL team home. Sometimes an NFL player could even get cut despite performing well in the preseason and training camp. The search for a new home will begin.
3 Possible Surprise Camp Cuts for the Baltimore Ravens
All NFL teams make necessary cuts in order to have the best 53-man roster assembled before the regular season kicks off.
The Ravens are no exception. The team will make roster cuts this coming season and some of the moves might surprise even the most seasoned football fans around or some cuts might be seen coming around the proverbial corner like cherry pie stains on your favorite shirt. Cherry-picking some potential candidates for the dreaded list is not an easy feat.
Ravens WR Wallace (16) – Karl Merton Ferron/Baltimore Sun/Tribute News Services via Getty Images
Cherry basket pick #1: Tylan Wallace: The 2021 fourth-round pick hasn’t lived up to expectations in Charm City. Wallace averaged 56 receptions during his two years in Baltimore and did not score a touchdown in his still-young career. Wallace was on the injured reserve list in December of the 2022 season with a hamstring injury, but the Ravens trekked onto second place in the AFC North with a 10-7 record and a spot in the playoffs before getting shown the door by the AFC North champion Cincinnati Bengals.
The Ravens did acquire Odell Beckham Jr., Nelson Agholor, and Laquon Treadwell via free agency and signed Tarik Black off the practice squad earlier in the offseason giving the team a strong and diverse wide receiver depth chart entering the 2023 season. Baltimore also has Devin Duvernay, Rashod Bateman, and newly drafted Zay Flowers on the depth chart as well.
Wallace would be that weak wide receiver link that could potentially be cut loose from the Ravens but could potentially be on the practice roster for Baltimore or any other wide receiver-needy team in the league later on in the regular season.
Ravens WR Isabella (83) – Jessica Rapfogel/USA Today Sports
Cherry Basket pick #2: Andy Isabella: The former Arizona Cardinals wide receiver who joined the Ravens in the 2022 season after getting waived by the Cardinals in October of last year, but later picked up by Baltimore which did add more receivers to the depth chart last season, but he didn’t add any serious production during his time in the purple, black, and gold.
Isabella played in two games for the Ravens and rushed for one lone yard in a regular season 16-13 loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers on Jan. 1. Isabella did sign a future/reserves contract with the Ravens back in January for the upcoming 2023 regular season, but no roster spot is guaranteed after training camp begins.
Having Isabella on the roster at this point is unfortunately unnecessary due to the talent acquisitions through free agency and the NFL draft mentioned earlier in this article.
Before Isabella was released by the Cardinals, his best season in the desert came in 2020 when he caught 21 receptions for 224 yards and scored two touchdowns. if Isabella performs something similar to how he played in 2020, he may still have a spot on the active roster or practice squad.
However, Isabella must play as if it’s his last day on the football field for the Ravens in training camp if he wants to compete for a roster spot. Worst case scenario, he can always find a new team to call home if Baltimore does release him before the 2023 season.
Ravens CB Seymour (25) – Todd Olszewski/Getty Images
Seymour may have average stats, but it is possible that the Ravens move on from him before the start of the 2023 season. Baltimore always needs a solid cornerback on the team and already has Marlon Humphreys, Brandon Stephens, Daryl Worley, and newly drafted Kyu Blu Kelly to name a few.
If the Ravens cut Seymour before the start of the regular season, a cornerback-needy team should be ready to call the veteran cornerback over.
The feeling of getting cut from an NFL team hurts, but Seymour’s journey of how he made it in the league to his brief hiatus away from football and how he mounted a return to the gridiron should be talked about more. He has great potential to find his NFL home, even if it is not with the Ravens.
An NFL roster spot is one of the toughest jobs to maintain physically and mentally with competition just around the corner waiting for a chance. The NFL, as in life, sometimes closes the door to that team home, but remember where a door closes, often time, a window to a new home will open.
