Ravens shake up D, trade Oweh for Bolts' Gilman

OWINGS MILLS, Md. -- The Baltimore Ravens are shaking up their struggling defence by trading slumping walk rusher Odafe Oweh and a 2027 seventh-round prime to the Los Angeles Chargers connected Tuesday successful speech for information Alohi Gilman and a fifth-round prime successful 2026, sources told ESPN's Adam Schefter.

Oweh, 26, has gone from signaling a career-high 10 sacks past play to not producing a sack successful his archetypal 5 games this season. The 31st wide prime successful the 2021 draft, Oweh has watched his playing clip driblet to a career-low 45% of the Ravens' antiaircraft snaps this season.

The Ravens escaped up astir $8 cardinal successful headdress abstraction by parting ways with Oweh, who volition beryllium an unrestricted escaped cause aft the season. Baltimore present whitethorn request to marque a determination to bolster its walk unreserved considering its apical remaining extracurricular linebackers are Kyle Van Noy, Tavius Robinson, rookie second-round prime Mike Green and David Ojabo.

Baltimore added 2 safeties connected Tuesday successful Gilman and C.J. Gardner-Johnson, a escaped cause who was signed to the signifier squad. The Ravens, who person allowed the astir points successful the NFL astatine 35.4 per game, besides fertile 31st successful walk defense, giving up an mean of 262.4 yards done the air.

The deficiency of experienced extent astatine information has been an contented for a Ravens defence that has struggled mightily.

When Pro Bowl information Kyle Hamilton was sidelined Sunday with a groin injury, Baltimore started undrafted rookie Reuben Lowery successful a 44-10 nonaccomplishment to the Houston Texans.

Gilman, 28, was 1 of the astir captious pieces to the Chargers' top-ranked defence past season. He thrived arsenic a heavy information with Elijah Molden, allowing Derwin James Jr. to determination chiefly to nickel, wherever James was a second-team All-Pro and rejuvenated a Chargers defence that had been 1 of the league's worst a play prior.

Gilman's play had fluctuated betwixt atrocious and bully this season, but ultimately, the Chargers' request for an borderline rusher is bigger than astatine safety. Coach Jim Harbaugh regularly lauds seasoned Tony Jefferson, who volition apt regenerate Gilman arsenic the starting heavy safety.

Gilman and Gardner-Johnson could besides assistance the Ravens adjacent erstwhile Hamilton returns. By playing 1 of them heavy with Malaki Starks, Hamilton tin play person to the enactment of scrimmage wherever helium has made an interaction successful the past.

According to TruMedia, Oweh is 33rd successful the ...