Bleacher Report has Ravens with second best backfield in NFL

by | Mar 17, 2025

Now that the NFL free agent period is more or less over, Bleacher Report compiled its list of the best backfields now in the NFL.

Improving teams like the Bills and Colts made the list while others emerging like the Panthers also cracked the top 10. Nearly taking the top spot was the Baltimore Ravens and ECU alum Keaton Mitchell.

The Ravens were ranked No. 2 with Derrick Henry, Justice Hill, Keaton Mitchell and Patrick Ricard making up the list of backs. We all saw what Henry did last season and there’s no reason he can’t do that again. The wildcard could be Mitchell.

“If Mitchell rebounds from a forgettable year mostly recovering from a torn ACL, he could produce chunk gains with his speed on the ground,” Bleacher Report wrote.

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