Ravens Reaction: Did the Ravens get another steal with Maliki Starks?

Here’s what first-round pick Malaki Starks can do for Ravens’ defense

The defining Malaki Starks highlight is unexpected in all the best ways. Unexpected because of what it entailed: a diving, full-extension interception along the right sideline in Georgia’s 2024 season opener. Unexpected because of whom it came against: perennial powerhouse Clemson and quarterback Cade Klubnik, a potential first-round pick in next year’s NFL draft. Unexpected because of where it happened.

Grading the Ravens' Draft

Grade: B Best Pick: Malaki Starks, No. 27 Overall What We Liked: Lots of good value early. The Ravens continued their strategy of taking advantage of teams not valuing safety and have now created an imposing secondary between Starks and…

Ravens select Georgia safety Starks

OWINGS MILLS, Md. —The Baltimore Ravens took Georgia safety Malaki Starks with the 27th selection in the NFL draft Thursday night. It was their second consecutive year drafting a defensive back in the first round after taking Clemson cornerback Nate…

Baltimore Ravens 2025 NFL draft picks: Malaki Starks, Mike Green taken in first two rounds

The Ravens own 11 picks in the 2025 draft. Let's take a closer look at each of them.

Inside Malaki Starks’ journey from being homeless to Ravens draft pick

Malaki Starks is a hugger, always has been. “He’d give you a hug before practice, after practice,” Shane Sorrow, his former youth football coach in Jefferson, Georgia, told The Baltimore Sun. “He’d never curse. He told you he loved you.” Even when, as a 6-year-old playing against kids a year older in that small town (population 15,756) in the shadow of the University of Georgia where he would later star, he once took a handoff and ran 20 yards b…

Ravens Reaction: Did the Ravens get another steal with Maliki Starks?

The Ravens were hoping that the best safety in this year's draft would fall to them at the end of the first round, but figured it would be a long shot.