Baltimore Ravens tight finish Mark Andrews dedicated a pair of costly mistakes in a 27-25 divisional-round playoff loss on the Buffalo Payments this previous January.
Forward of the 2025 NFL Draft that will get underway on Thursday night time, Andrews addressed what went unsuitable throughout what might be the ultimate sport of his Baltimore tenure.
“That is sports activities, man. Issues occur,” Andrews informed Jamison Hensley of ESPN for a bit revealed Tuesday. “I do know the kind of participant that I’m, what I can do, and it’s what it’s. It was robust, wasn’t the very best sport and I am trying ahead to redemption.”
Andrews lost a fumble close to midfield within the fourth quarter of the postseason defeat that occurred in snowy Buffalo. He later dropped a go that hit him within the abdomen on what ought to’ve turn out to be a game-tying two-point conversion play with 1:33 remaining within the fourth quarter.
In his newest feedback, Andrews acknowledged his gloves have been “soaked” from the earlier play earlier than he did not reel within the two-point conversion go.
“I am pondering, ‘Do I take it off? Do I not?’ It was so quick and so fast that it simply occurred,” Andrews defined. “And on the finish of the day, I nonetheless ought to have caught the ball. I nonetheless ought to have made that play.”
Andrews was the subject of quite a few commerce rumors even earlier than Ravens common supervisor Eric DeCosta recently hinted he might make the 29-year-old accessible to different groups earlier than the draft wraps up this coming Saturday. The Ravens have tight ends Isaiah Likely and Charlie Kolar underneath contract for 2025, whereas Andrews is within the final year of his deal.
Based on Hensley, Baltimore would acquire $11M in salary-cap area by parting methods with Andrews this spring.
“I do know the Ravens and my relationship is extremely sturdy, and I belief in [DeCosta] and everyone there over on the Ravens,” Andrews stated about his unsure future. “And there is nothing on my finish actually to share. For me, it is simply been working onerous this offseason and attempting to get in the very best form of my life, attempting to have the very best season of my life developing and successful a Tremendous Bowl.”
One would assume the win-now Ravens would need to give star quarterback Lamar Jackson as many weapons as doable to assist Jackson in his pursuit of a primary profession Tremendous Bowl look. That stated, DeCosta might decide that discovering Andrews’ substitute in the course of the draft after which buying and selling the veteran is what’s greatest for the Ravens’ future.
