ravens trade vedvik to vikings

[WNCRavensFan]

great move to get a 5th for a UDFA who never played a down.

It's like a free gift

So next draft, the Ravens are looking at an extra:

3rd - Za Smith comp
4th - John Brown comp
5th - Vedvik trade
7th - Brent Urban comp (if Justin Bethel is cut)

[Raveninwoodlawn]

Awesome trade. I didn't think we'd get more than a 7.

[Davesta]

5th round picks are more often miss then hit. it was a nice return relatively speaking for a kicker but in the grand scheme of things not so much.

Basically just look at as another Eluemunor or Lasley

London or lasley? F that! I’m looking for another rick Wagner or Matt judon baby! EDC baby! What it doooo babbbbbyy!

[NjRavensFan]

Most likely but it could also well be another Matt Judon or Adalius Thomas.

Or Ricky Wagner, or Pernell McPhee, or Art Jones, or Dawan Landry, or going all the way back, Jermaine Lewis. We have a pretty impressive history in the 5th tbh. It’s also yet another chip we can use to move up elsewhere in the draft.

[moose10101]

5th round picks are more often miss then hit. it was a nice return relatively speaking for a kicker but in the grand scheme of things not so much.

Basically just look at as another Eluemunor or Lasley

In the grand scheme of things, we don't know what it will mean. Could be a turd, could be a Pro Bowler. But Vedvik wasn't making the team, so it's a win for now.

[moose10101]

It's like a free gift

So next draft, the Ravens are looking at an extra:

3rd - Za Smith comp
4th - John Brown comp
5th - Vedvik trade
7th - Brent Urban comp (if Justin Bethel is cut)

7th for Lewis.

[BcRaven]

5th round picks are more often miss then hit. it was a nice return relatively speaking for a kicker but in the grand scheme of things not so much.

Basically just look at as another Eluemunor or Lasley

I think you're being too pessimistic. Sure a 5th can be less than a 50 - 50 chance to succeed, but that doesn't mean all 5th rounders fail (Pernell McPhee, Rick Wagner, Nick Boyle, and Matt Judon for instance). Secondly, this can be used as a trade chip come draft day. We signed Vedvik as an UDFA last year and turned that into a 5th round pick in 2020. To me DeCosta is a magician... Bc

[Caps&Ravens]

That’s a ton of ammo to be aggressive in next years draft.

[The Excellector]

Great return for someone who has never played in a game that counted, and in the NFC.

This post sums up the situation very well. No matter his potential, Vedvik has never kicked in a regular season game. Last year, while he impressed to a degree, he was not stone cold solid. It goes without saying that he wasn’t good enough at punts to match Koch’s quality and he wasn’t good enough with FGs to match Tucker’s quality.

While I poo poo’d The idea that getting a seventh round pick for a former fourth rounder was a “great” move, I am much higher on this particular move. An Undrafted Free Agent who suffered a serious head injury last year, and who has never kicked in a regular season game, traded for a fifth round pick. That is a very good deal.

[The Excellector]

Even we as fans, stress the importance of continuity. The one entity that we’ve been able to rely on the most, over the past half dozen years, has been the Wolfpack. Koch is not only the best Punter in the league, but a great holder and can run fakes with great effectiveness. Punters are known to play into their 40s. You don’t mess with that chemistry until it tells you, through its declining play, that it needs to be messed with.

[The Excellector]

A team that is set up to be a defensively led, ball control team, prone to close low scoring games, cannot afford to gamble with the most solid special teams unit in the league. That is the difference in those close games.

[Kyle Cactus]

We basically made a 5th round pick from nothing. How awesome is that!? There's only a small chance that it turns into a big player, but if you create enough small chances, one of them will eventually pay off big.

Props to Ozzie and DeCosta.