Panthers sending WR Diontae Johnson to Ravens in trade

The commerce is a pick-swap, with Baltimore sending a 2025 fifth-round decide to Carolina for Johnson and a sixth-rounder, per Rapoport and Garafolo. It is a surprisingly low-cost worth to pay for the Ravens so as to add a receiving weapon.

The transfer bolsters an already harmful Baltimore offense, which has shredded defenses by means of the air and on the bottom by means of eight weeks.

Johnson, a former Pittsburgh Steeler, groups up with Lamar Jackson, Zay Flowers, Derrick Henry, Mark Andrews and Isaiah Seemingly in a pick-your-poison offense. Johnson’s skill on the skin ought to assist open issues up for the shifty Flowers and provides Jackson a field-stretching and back-shoulder boundary weapon. He is a right away improve over Rashod Bateman and ensures the Ravens’ depth ought to accidents strike.

With Johnson within the last 12 months of his contract, he is a employed weapon for a Ravens crew that has leaned on the offense in 2024. The protection nonetheless has points that may very well be aided within the commerce market. However for immediately, Ravens common supervisor Eric DeCosta determined to double down on the offense. If Baltimore is not going to gradual opponents, a minimum of they’ll attempt to run away from them on offense each week.