With today’s signing of center Ethan Pocic, the Ravens’ offensive line is beginning to fall into place. With Pocic favored to secure the team’s starting center job, the remaining of the starting five and backup spots will be projected as training camp nears.
Assuming Pocic can beat out Danny Pinter, Corey Bullock, and Jovaughn Gwyn to begin in the center, he’ll join returning starting tackles Ronnie Stanley and Roger Rosengarten on the first-team offense. The guard spots are expected to go to free agent addition John Simpson, who returns to Baltimore after two seasons in Latest York, and rookie first-round pick Olaivavega Ioane. In keeping with Jeff Zrebiec of The Athletic, the team’s third- and fifth-round picks from 2025, Emery Jones Jr. and Carson Vinson, are Baltimore’s top backup tackle options.
Assuming they’re locked into roster spots alongside the starting group, Zrebiec predicts that only two or three spots could be left on the eventual 53-man roster. Pinter, Bullock, Gwyn, and undrafted rookie Nick Dawkins represent depth options for a essential backup center spot; last yr’s starter at left guard Andrew Vorhees, 2025 UDFA Jared Penning, and seventh-round rookie Evan Beerntsen will compete as options at guard; and undrafted rookie Diego Kilos adds one other tackle option.
Vorhees and Pinter look like obvious keeps for the inside line, given their starting experience. Vorhees graded out last yr because the 59th-best guard within the league (out of 79 players graded on the position), per Pro Football Focus (subscription required), and Pinter only has 10 starts in six years, but each likely would have been in line for starting jobs had Simpson and Pocic not arrived in free agency. The staff in Baltimore has shown quite a lot of faith in Bullock’s potential since signing the undrafted lineman last yr, so in the event that they plan on holding 10, he might be the last guy.
That may leave Kilos, Penning, Beerntsen, Gwyn, and Dawkins on the skin looking in. It wouldn’t be too surprising for Kilos and Dawkins to fall short as undrafted rookies, and Penning spent his rookie yr on the practice squad and will find his way back in Yr 2. Gwyn was a low-cost swing at interior OL depth, so his loss wouldn’t be too hard to swallow. If the team waives Beerntsen, it might be the second yr in a row that Baltimore drafted a seventh-round lineman who did not make the initial 53.
Training camp is every week away, and there’s still loads of time for a few of those previous few players to make something occur. But after today’s key signing, the image of the Ravens’ offensive line is starting to come back into focus.