Calais Campbell Talks About Returning to Ravens, How He Keeps Playing at a High Level, And More

The Ravens Lounge

Baltimore Ravens

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4.9 • 659 Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2026

⏱️ 45 minutes

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After inking his reunion in Baltimore, Calais Campbell joins team insiders Ryan Mink and Garrett Downing to talk about what he'll bring in his 19th season, why the Ravens were the team he wanted to return to, why he's so productive, and much more.

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0:00.0	Welcome into the lounge.
0:05.5	I'm Ryan Mink here with Garrett Downing, and we are thrilled to sit down with Callais Campbell,
0:09.7	fresh off signing his contract here with the Ravens.
0:12.6	Welcome back, Callais.
0:14.0	Really happy to have you.
0:15.5	Let's start with this.
0:16.4	All right, I have a little trivia for you.
0:17.7	We're going to get that brain work in here early on, all right?
0:21.3	What do all these players have in common? Okay. Clayus Campbell may have heard of them.
0:27.2	Matt Forte. Deshawn Jackson, Matt Ryan, Jamal Charles, Chris Johnson, Akib Talib,
0:34.4	Georgie Nelson, Kevin O'Connell. What do they all have in common? We all owed. We got drafted in 2008 together. Deshaun Jackson to pick before me. Wow. All right. So now what do they all, what do they not have all in common? What's one thing they don't all have in common? I'm not at home right now. They. They're doing things. I mean, they're not home home, but I'm not playing football anymore. I'm the last one standing. We're not really giving. Joe Flacco's still standing. Joe Flacco's still standing. Yep, that is true. And Josh Johnson. The last three from that class. I mean, it's quarterbacks. don't count, man. Exactly. That's a lot.
1:12.0	Like forever.
1:12.8	If you want to be a quarterback,
1:13.5	especially if you want to be a backup quarterback.
1:14.6	Yeah,
1:14.9	exactly.
1:15.2	I mean,
1:15.5	you look at those names and you're like, Deshawn Jackson, it feels like he's been out of the league for a decade, man. Like, that's crazy. how does that make you feel to still be the last non-quarterback stand in that group?
1:27.5	How's it made me feel?
1:29.6	I'll say that I feel a couple of times. feel to still be the last non-quarterback standing that group? How's it made me feel?
1:29.6	I'll say that I feel accomplished, you know, I mean, I never really had like aspirations
1:35.3	to play a long time.
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