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On the eve of the NFL draft, Eric DeCosta has made another big move with an extension.

Last year, it was the record-setting deal with Lamar Jackson.

This year, an extension with wide receiver Rashad Bateman, putting him under contract in Baltimore

through the 2026 season. I'm Ryan Mink. I'm here with Garrett Downing, and we're going to

break down what this extension means, give you our reaction to it, and also what it means for

the Ravens draft coming up this weekend. So Garrett, just first thoughts on the Bateman extension.

Oh, look, but there's a move that happens right before the draft.

The initial reaction is, whoa.

Like, I felt the same way last year when the Ravens signed Lamar Jackson to that long-term deal.

We're sitting here talking about which offensive tackles the Ravens may like,

and now a Bateman deal gets done.

And I think this one really was, you know, particularly kind of catches you off guard just because this was not one that the Ravens had

kind of said that Eric Scasta had said previously like, hey, we're working towards this. We all

knew Lamar deals in the works. Yeah, like we all knew that one was, there was a long process that

led to that one. That was a matter of when, not so much if.

Correct.

This was a matter of if.

Correct.

Totally.

And so before this deal, you know, the fifth year option decision was looming for

the Ravens and Rashad Bateman.

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