The person has certain encountered an NFL odyssey.
Yannick Ngakoue is as soon as once more out there to all NFL groups, reduce free by the Baltimore Ravens on Thursday. Baltimore could re-sign the cross rusher to its apply squad, however each different membership has the possibility to scoop Ngakoue.
ESPN’s Adam Schefter tweeted Thursday, “Ravens are waiving DE Yannick Ngakoue, per supply. The Ravens wish to re-sign him to their apply squad ought to he clear waivers.”
Schefter additionally clarified, “Waiving Yannick Ngakoue clears up a roster spot that the Ravens now can use on RB Keaton Mitchell, who might make his 2024 season debut tonight after recovering from final season’s knee harm.”
The NFL’s commerce deadline simply wrapped up Tuesday, and contending groups love including veteran pass-rushing expertise. It wouldn’t be bizarre in any respect for a group with a profitable file to seize Ngakoue and cancel the Raven’s PS plan.
These are the Ravens’ exterior linebackers with out Ngakoue:
Ngakoue has served as a year-by-year pass-rushing mercenary for rent since his 2020 Vikings cease. Right here’s his NFL resume so far:
On August thirtieth, 2020, Yannick Ngakoue was dealt to the Vikings early on a Sunday morning for a 2nd-Spherical decide in 2021 and a conditional fifth-round decide in 2022. Ngakoue was at a contractual deadlock with the Jaguars on the time, a group in full sell-off mode after reaching the AFC Championship in 2017. The Vikings seized the bait and sought to make use of a duo of EDGE rushers that might encourage nightmares, that includes Ngakoue and Danielle Hunter. The combo turned out to be Ngakoue and Ifeadi Odenigbo, not Ngakoue and Hunter.
The Vikings’ 2020 cross rush was depressing — the worst in the NFL, actually. The cross rusher was then traded to those very Ravens in what felt like the start of a hearth sale because the Vikings stood at 1-5 coming into the 2020 bye week. The fireplace sale by no means prolonged past Ngakoue, however Minnesota emphatically threw within the towel on the excessive hopes for its 2020 cross rush. As an alternative, Odenigbo acquired extra enjoying time, offering the teaching employees with intel that he was not a long-term beginning asset on the defensive position. He was launched in 2021.
Ngakoue performed about 600 defensive snaps in 2023 for the Bears and earned a depressing 39.9 Pro Football Focus grade. He improved this season, although, logging 87 defensive snaps, a 61.4 PFF grade, and seven quarterback pressures, together with 2 sacks.
The Ravens are third in line to win the Tremendous Bowl, in line with oddsmakers, with a +650 moneyline.
Dustin Baker is a political scientist who graduated from the College of Minnesota in 2007. Subscribe to his each day YouTube Channel, VikesNow. The present options friends, evaluation, and opinion on all issues associated to the purple group, with 4-7 episodes per week. His Vikings obsession dates again to 1996. Listed responsible pleasures: Peanut Butter Ice Cream, ‘The Sopranos,’ Basset Hounds, and The Doorways (the band). He follows the NBA as intently because the NFL.
All statistics supplied by Pro Football Reference / Stathead; all contractual data supplied by OverTheCap.com.A Former Vikings Move Rusher Is Accessible
