Baltimore Ravens
Battle card · first-round draft history, season-by-season record, and how Ravens top picks have shaped the franchise.
R1 Picks
34
Hall of Famers
3
8.8% hit rate
Avg pick slot
20.0
Highest pick
#4
Jonathan Ogden · 1996
All-time record
365–318–3
0.534 win %
Playoff seasons
21
of 44
The Story
- Baltimore Ravens have made 34 first-round selections and produced 3 Hall of Famers (8.8% hit rate).
- Their highest selection on record is #4 overall in 1996, when they took Jonathan Ogden.
- Across 44 seasons in this dataset they have a 365-318-3 record (0.534) and reached the playoffs 21 times.
- In seasons after holding at least one top-10 pick, Baltimore Ravens added an average of 2.3 wins versus the prior year (6 such seasons in the data).
- Their most-drafted position group is DB, taken 9 times in Round 1.
- Miami (FL) is their go-to talent pipeline, supplying 3 first-round picks.
- Their best season was 2019: 14-2-0 (+249 point differential).
- Their worst was 1982: 0-8-1 (-123 point differential).
Wins per Season
R1 Pick Slot by Year
Position Breakdown
Point Differential by Season
Impact of Top-10 Picks (Next-Season Wins Delta)
| Draft Year | Pick | Player | Prior-Year Wins | New-Year Wins | Delta | HoF? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | #4 | Peter Boulware | 4 | 6 | +2 | |
| 1998 | #10 | Duane Starks | 6 | 6 | +0 | |
| 1999 | #10 | Chris McAlister | 6 | 8 | +2 | |
| 2000 | #5 |
Jamal Lewis
+ #10 Travis Taylor
|
8 | 12 | +4 | |
| 2003 | #10 | Terrell Suggs | 7 | 10 | +3 | |
| 2016 | #6 | Ronnie Stanley | 5 | 8 | +3 |
Hall of Fame Selections
| Year | Pick | Player | Pos | College |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | #4 | Jonathan Ogden | T | UCLA |
| 1996 | #26 | Ray Lewis | LB | Miami (FL) |
| 2002 | #24 | Ed Reed | DB | Miami (FL) |
Every First-Round Pick
| Year | Pick | Player | Pos | College | HoF |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | #4 | Jonathan Ogden | T | UCLA | HoF |
| 1996 | #26 | Ray Lewis | LB | Miami (FL) | HoF |
| 1997 | #4 | Peter Boulware | LB | Florida St. | |
| 1998 | #10 | Duane Starks | DB | Miami (FL) | |
| 1999 | #10 | Chris McAlister | DB | Arizona | |
| 2000 | #5 | Jamal Lewis | RB | Tennessee | |
| 2000 | #10 | Travis Taylor | WR | Florida | |
| 2001 | #31 | Todd Heap | TE | Arizona St. | |
| 2002 | #24 | Ed Reed | DB | Miami (FL) | HoF |
| 2003 | #10 | Terrell Suggs | LB | Arizona St. | |
| 2003 | #19 | Kyle Boller | QB | California | |
| 2005 | #22 | Mark Clayton | WR | Oklahoma | |
| 2006 | #12 | Haloti Ngata | DT | Oregon | |
| 2007 | #29 | Ben Grubbs | G | Auburn | |
| 2008 | #18 | Joe Flacco | QB | Delaware | |
| 2009 | #23 | Michael Oher | T | Mississippi | |
| 2011 | #27 | Jimmy Smith | DB | Colorado | |
| 2013 | #32 | Matt Elam | DB | Florida | |
| 2014 | #17 | C.J. Mosley | LB | Alabama | |
| 2015 | #26 | Breshad Perriman | WR | Central Florida | |
| 2016 | #6 | Ronnie Stanley | T | Notre Dame | |
| 2017 | #16 | Marlon Humphrey | CB | Alabama | |
| 2018 | #25 | Hayden Hurst | TE | South Carolina | |
| 2018 | #32 | Lamar Jackson | QB | Louisville | |
| 2019 | #25 | Marquise Brown | WR | Oklahoma | |
| 2020 | #28 | Patrick Queen | LB | LSU | |
| 2021 | #27 | Rashod Bateman | WR | Minnesota | |
| 2021 | #31 | Odafe Oweh | DE | Penn St. | |
| 2022 | #14 | Kyle Hamilton | S | Notre Dame | |
| 2022 | #25 | Tyler Linderbaum | OL | Iowa | |
| 2023 | #22 | Zay Flowers | WR | Boston Col. | |
| 2024 | #30 | Nate Wiggins | CB | Clemson | |
| 2025 | #27 | Malaki Starks | SAF | Georgia | |
| 2026 | #14 | Olaivavega Ioane | OG | Penn St. |