Predicting the Ravens' stat leader for every major category in 2025

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The Baltimore Ravens were among the league's best as a team in a number of different offensive and defensive rankings last season. From an individual perspective, they similarly had several players rank highly and produce career-best campaigns.
As the 2025 season approaches, who will lead the Ravens in the major offensive and defensive statistical areas? Let's break it down with some early predictions.
Passing Yards and Passing Touchdowns
Prediction: QB Lamar Jackson
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This is self-explanatory, as Jackson will undoubtedly lead the Ravens in every major passing category. The only question is how he'll follow up a historic statistical season in 2024, where he threw a career-best 41 touchdowns with only four interceptions and crossed the 4,000-yard passing mark — while completing 66% of his throws. There's only one possibility of Jackson not leading the team in each passing statistic, which is the worst-case scenario of an extended absence due to injury.
Rushing Yards and Rushing Touchdowns
Prediction: RB Derrick Henry
Similar to above, it's a no-brainer that Henry will pace the Ravens in the major rushing statistical areas. Henry instantly became the team's workhorse last season and rushed for 1,921 yards with 16 touchdowns and a career-high 5.9 yards per carry. He may not be able to quite match these lofty numbers again in 2025, but Henry should once again thrive as the offense's bell cow. Justice Hill and Keaton Mitchell are more likely to exceed Henry's receiving production as third-down running backs, but will not come close to his rushing stats.
Receiving Yards and Receptions
Prediction: WR Zay Flowers
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Flowers comfortably led the team in receiving yards last season, crossing the 1,000-yard threshold in his sophomore campaign while also catching a team-high 74 passes. Between him, Rashod Bateman, Mark Andrews, Isaiah Likely, and newcomer Deandre Hopkins, the Ravens have a lot of mouths to feed in the passing game. However, Flowers has become Jackson's go-to target, and he should continue to build upon his strong campaign in 2024. Flowers figures to continue leading the team in targets, which means he will also pace all pass-catchers in receptions as well. Even if his target share remains the same, Flowers combination of big-play ability and yards-after-the-catch prowess allow him to rack up receiving yardage.
Receiving Touchdowns
Prediction: TE Isaiah Likely
This category is a tougher to predict. Andrews has now long been the team's leading receiving touchdown scorer. Even as his production declined a little in 2024, Andrews recorded a career-high 11 touchdown catches. However, the momentum for a breakout season from Likely continues to build and there very well may be a more even-split between the two at tight end in 2025. Likely caught his own career-best six touchdowns last year with a mix of red zone targets and long scores. He'd need a few more than that next season to match or exceed Andrews and Rashod Bateman's scoring to lead the Ravens in touchdown catches. Jackson may spread the ball around enough for that to happen as his chemistry and connection with Likely takes another step forward.
Total Tackles
Prediction: ILB Roquan Smith
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It's hard to pick anyone other than Smith, who has long been one of the NFL leaders in total tackles year after year. Last season, he led the Ravens in this category with 154 tackles — well ahead of Kyle Hamilton in second with 107. Smith is heavily involved in all defensive action as the team's anchor in the middle of the field.
Tackles for Loss
Prediction: DT NNnamdi Madubuike
Kyle Van Noy led the team in tackles for loss (TFL) last season with 14, which was the best mark of his career. In 2023, Madubuike's 12 TFL ranked No. 1 on the defense during his breakout season two years ago. Madubuike had only one less tackle for loss last year with 11, so his production in this area has been stable for consecutive seasons now. The two-time Pro Bowler has become a disruptive force, but the Ravens will need him to be especially consistent and wreak havoc this coming season. With Michael Pierce gone, Madubuike is now the veteran leader of the defensive line group.
Sacks and Quarterback Hits
Prediction: EDGE Odafe Oweh
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Van Noy was also the defensive leader in sacks with another career-high total of 12.5. He ranked two quarterback hits behind Oweh, who racked up a team-high 23. Van Noy should be productive once again but at 33 years old, the Ravens may opt to ration his snaps a bit to keep him fresh later in the season — especially with a plethora of young edge rushers behind him on the depth chart. Oweh appears primed to take another step forward and build upon his 10-sack performance in 2024. He was only 2.5 sacks behind Van Noy last year, so it's not a high mountain to climb for him to lead this category.
Interceptions
Prediction: S Kyle Hamilton
All-Pro cornerback Marlon Humphrey had a career-high six interceptions last season which led all defenders. He was the only player on the Ravens with more than two. However, while Humphrey is a great playmaker, this interception total was a bit of an outlier. as his previous single-season best was three and he totaled six interceptions combined in the previous four seasons from 2020-2023. Hamilton had only one interception last season but recorded four in 2023; and he could have had more in 2024 if not for a couple of drops.
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