List of Baltimore Ravens first-round draft picks explained

The Baltimore Ravens joined the National Football League (NFL) in 1996 as a retroactive expansion team, after former-Cleveland Browns owner Art Modell decided to relocate his team to Baltimore. The Browns were later reactivated in 1999. The Ravens' first selection as an NFL team was Jonathan Ogden, an offensive lineman from UCLA. The team's most recent first-round selection was Nate Wiggins, a cornerback from Clemson.

Every year during April, each NFL franchise seeks to add new players to its roster through a collegiate draft known as "the NFL Annual Player Selection Meeting", which is more commonly known as the NFL Draft. Teams are ranked in inverse order based on the previous season's record, with the worst record picking first, and the second worst picking second and so on. The two exceptions to this order are made for teams that appeared in the previous Super Bowl; the Super Bowl champion always picks 32nd, and the Super Bowl loser always picks 31st. Teams have the option of trading away their picks to other teams for different picks, players, cash, or a combination thereof. Thus, it is not uncommon for a team's actual draft pick to differ from their assigned draft pick, or for a team to have extra or no draft picks in any round due to these trades.

The Ravens have never selected the number one overall pick in the draft, but they have selected the fourth overall pick twice.

Key

^
Indicates the player was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
†Indicates the player was selected for the Pro Bowl at any time in their career.
—The Ravens did not draft a player in the first round that year.
YearEach year links to an article about that particular NFL Draft.
PickIndicates the number of the pick within the first round
PositionIndicates the position of the player in the NFL
CollegeThe player's college football team

Player selections

Baltimore Ravens first-round draft picks
YearPickPlayer namePositionCollegeNotes
1996 ^†OTUCLA
^†LBMiami (FL)[1]
1997 †LBFlorida State
1998CBMiami (FL)
1999 †CBArizona
2000 †RBTennessee[2]
WRFlorida
2001 †TEArizona State
2002^†SMiami (FL)
2003 †LBArizona State
QBCalifornia
2004No pick[3]
2005WROklahoma
2006 †DTOregon[4]
2007 †GAuburn
2008QBDelaware
2009OTOle Miss
2010No pick[5]
2011CBColorado
2012No pick[6]
2013SFlorida
2014 †LBAlabama
2015WRUCF
2016 †OTNotre Dame
2017 †CBAlabama
2018TESouth Carolina
†QBLouisville[7]
2019WROklahoma
2020 †LBLSU
2021WRMinnesota
Odafe OwehOLBPenn State[8]
2022Kyle Hamilton †S/CBNotre Dame
Tyler Linderbaum †CIowa[9]
2023Zay FlowersWRBoston College
2024Nate WigginsCBClemson

References

Notes and References

  1. The second first-round pick for 1996 came as a result of a multiple-team trade, in which the Ravens received the San Francisco 49ers' 26th overall pick, and the Cleveland Browns received the 49ers' first, third and fourth round picks in exchange for the Browns' 1995 first-round selection.
  2. First first-round draft selection for 2000 was acquired from the Atlanta Falcons in exchange for a 1999 second-round draft selection.
  3. The Ravens traded their 2004 first-round pick to the New England Patriots in exchange for the Patriots' 2003 first-round (19th overall) selection.
  4. The Ravens obtained their 2006 first-round choice in a trade with the Cleveland Browns for their 2006 NFL Draft first-round (13th overall) and sixth-round (181st overall) selection.
  5. The Ravens traded their 2010 first-round pick to the Denver Broncos in exchange for the Broncos' 2010 second-round (43rd overall), third-round (70th overall), and fourth-round (114th overall) selections.
  6. The Ravens traded their 2012 first-round pick to the Minnesota Vikings in exchange for the Vikings' 2012 second-round (35th overall), and fourth-round (98th overall) selections.
  7. Baltimore traded their second- and fourth-round selections (52nd and 125th) and a second-round selection in the 2019 NFL draft to Philadelphia in exchange for their first- and fourth-round selections (32nd and 132nd).
  8. Baltimore traded offensive tackle Orlando Brown Jr., their 2021 second-round selection (No. 58) and a 2022 sixth-round selection to Kansas City for their 2021 first-round selection (No. 31), 2021 third-round selection (No. 94), 2021 fourth-round selection (No. 136), and a 2022 fifth-round selection.
  9. Baltimore traded wide receiver Marquise Brown and their third-round selection (No. 100) to the Arizona Cardinals in exchange for a first-round pick (No. 23). That pick was then traded to the Buffalo Bills for their first-round pick (No. 25) and their third-round pick (No. 130).

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