{"id":509629,"date":"2026-03-07T10:45:29","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T14:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=509629"},"modified":"2026-03-07T10:45:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T14:45:29","slug":"ravens-send-first-round-picks-in-mega-deal-with-raiders-for-crosby","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/ravens-send-first-round-picks-in-mega-deal-with-raiders-for-crosby\/","title":{"rendered":"Ravens send first-round picks in mega deal with Raiders for Crosby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the biggest trade in team history, the Baltimore Ravens are acquiring 5-time Pro Bowl DE Maxx Crosby from the Las Vegas Raiders for 2 1<sup>st<\/sup>-round selections in the current year and next year.<\/p>\n<p>The exchange is contingent on the defensive end passing a physical, which can\u2019t be arranged until the beginning of the new NFL year in several days.<\/p>\n<p>This marks the 1<sup>st<\/sup> time in Baltimore\u2019s 31-year history that they have used a 1<sup>st<\/sup>-round selection to make a deal for a veteran footballer. The Ravens had the 14<sup>th<\/sup> overall selection in the 2026 NFL Draft.<\/p>\n<p>Among the organizations the Baltimore beat for Maxx were the Cowboys, who were ready to offer 1<sup>st<\/sup> and a 2<sup>nd<\/sup>-round selection for the Raiders&#8217; ex-star, but the Ravens outbid them.<\/p>\n<p>Maxx, who is 28 years old, will need to make a difference to the struggling Baltimore pass rush in the past year, as they totaled 30 sacks, the Ravens\u2019 fewest in 15 seasons. The past campaign was also the 1<sup>st<\/sup> time since the organization\u2019s inaugural 1996 season that they didn&#8217;t have an ED with at least 5 sacks.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udc26\u200d\u2b1b Maxx Crosby<br \/>\ud83d\udc26\u200d\u2b1b Roquan Smith<br \/>\ud83d\udc26\u200d\u2b1b Kyle Van Noy<br \/>\ud83d\udc26\u200d\u2b1b Kyle Hamilton<br \/>\ud83d\udc26\u200d\u2b1b Marlon Humphrey<\/p>\n<p>Baltimore&#39;s defense just got a whole lot stronger for 2026 \ud83d\ude28\ud83d\udc40 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nhs0P1aIuc\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/nhs0P1aIuc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; DraftKings (@DraftKings) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DraftKings\/status\/2030116784905359451?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 7, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the biggest trade in team history, the Baltimore Ravens are acquiring 5-time Pro Bowl DE Maxx Crosby from the Las Vegas Raiders [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":509630,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17241,16755,27083],"news_category":[16703],"gn_keywords":[18573,18120,22169],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"Baltimore has the biggest trade in its organizational history.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/509629"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/509629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":509631,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/509629\/revisions\/509631"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509629"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=509629"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=509629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}