The Ravens have released offensive tackle James Hurst, as ESPN.com’s Jamison Hensley tweets. Hurst was suspended for the first four games of the 2020 season. Now, he’ll try to hook on elsewhere.
Hurst appeared in all 16 games for the Ravens in 2019 and made a pair of starts. In February, he went from on-the-bubble to a likely goner when the league handed him a one-month ban for performance-enhancing substances.
Hurst was set to count for a $5.25MM cap hit in 2020. Instead, the Ravens will shed his deal to save $2.75MM against $2.5MM in dead money.
The 28-year-old former UDFA has been with the Ravens since 2014. He appeared in 90 games over that span and started all of his games in 2017 and 2018.
If he didn’t get suspended you gotta think he would have had a chance to make the roster if not start. I would assume he has a chance to come back after his suspension.
He was definitely a bubble guy if not for the suspension. He could step in at four OL positions and spot start. Shouldn’t ever be your primary option but still an average NFL player. It’s likely he lands somewhere after his suspension but the Ravens were not keeping him at his full cap hit to sit a month.
Great job boys….we don’t need him around, we gonna win it next yr just sucks Yanda Yanda won’t be around but, it’s cool. GO RAVENS 2021 SB CHAMPS
Shed 2 Hurst in one day!
No doubt the suspension hurt him, but it was time to move on, if he couldn’t win the starting LG job last year, the he was always going to be that swing replacement OL. I definitely didn’t want them to put him into Yanda’s spot.
Now Ben Powers or some yet to be drafted or signed player will compete.