Ravens Targeting Extension For Zay Flowers Before Week 1, Likely For Over $35M/Year

Per ESPN’s Jamison Hensley, it would not be surprising to see the Ravens and WR Zay Flowers come to terms on a long-term deal before Week 1, as that’s historically how Baltimore has handled its core players. 

Hensley expects the price tag on a Flowers deal to exceed $35 million a year as the cost for receivers continues to balloon. 

Flowers’ draft classmate, Seahawks WR Jaxon Smith-Njigba, reset the market at over $42 million a year this offseason. The Falcons also just gave WR Drake London a deal worth a little over $35 million annually. 

After the Ravens picked up Flowers’ fifth-year option this offseason, he’s under contract through 2027. 

Flowers, 25, was a three-year starter at Boston College who earned first-team All-ACC honors in 2020 and 2022. He was also a third-team selection in 2021. 

The Ravens selected him with the No. 22 overall pick in the first round of the 2023 NFL Draft. He signed a four-year, $15,159,137 contract that included an $8,024,827 signing bonus. 

Flowers was entering the fourth year of that deal when the Ravens exercised his fifth-year option for the 2027 season worth $27.298 million fully guaranteed. 

In 2025, Flowers appeared in all 17 games for the Ravens and recorded 86 receptions for 1,211 yards and five touchdowns.

We’ll have more on Flowers as the news is available.