Overview
- D.J. Reader, who visited the Ravens on Thursday per NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport, remains unsigned more than two weeks into free agency.
- Baltimore’s look at the 31-year-old run-stopper ties to uncertainty around Nnamdi Madubuike’s neck recovery and thin depth on the interior line.
- Reader is one of the top defensive tackles still available after starting all 17 games for Detroit in 2025, posting 28 tackles and leading Lions interior linemen in snaps with 583.
- Compensatory-pick rules could slow a deal because a contract of roughly $3 million or more would count against a team’s 2027 formula until the Monday after the draft.
- Analysts flag Minnesota as a fit after the Vikings released Javon Hargrave and Jonathan Allen, while Yahoo spotlights how both the Ravens and Packers must weigh the comp-pick tradeoff.