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(Kim Hairston/Baltimore Sun/TNS)1 / 2Ravens, TE Mark Andrews agree to 3-year, $39.3 million contract extension
(Karl Merton Ferron/Baltimore Sun/TNS)1 / 2Ravens, TE Mark Andrews agree to 3-year, $39.3 million contract extension
(Karl Merton Ferron/Baltimore Sun/TNS)2 / 2Ravens, TE Mark Andrews agree to 3-year, $39.3 million contract extension
(Kim Hairston/Baltimore Sun/TNS)Brian Wacker, The Baltimore SunThu, December 4, 2025 at 1:21 AM UTC·4 min readBALTIMORE — Ravens tight end Mark Andrews will be staying in Baltimore a little longer.
On Wednesday, he agreed to a three-year contract extension that will keep him with the Ravens through 2028, the team announced. He was slated to be a free agent after this season.
AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementThe deal is worth $39.3 million with $26 million guaranteed, according to a source with direct knowledge of the contract. That makes Andrews the sixth-highest paid tight end in terms of average annual value behind the Cleveland Browns’ David Njoku and is his third contract with the team.
“Mark is an all-time Raven — a top competitor and Pro Bowl tight end who is also a big part of our Baltimore community,” general manager Eric DeCosta said in a statement.
It was also a somewhat surprising move.
Fourth-year tight ends Isaiah Likely, 25, and Charlie Kolar, 26, are both in the final year of their rookie contracts and are scheduled to be free agents in the offseason. Andrews, 30, is in his eighth season and has seen his production dip in recent years.
AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementLast season, Andrews led the team in receiving touchdowns (11) but averaged just 39.6 receiving yards per game, his lowest mark since his rookie year in 2018. This season, he is averaging 27.7 yards per contest, though he does lead the team in receiving touchdowns (5) and is second in receptions (37) and yards (332).
He was considered a potential trade candidate this past offseason as well.
But Andrews, who is the franchise leader in catches (473), yards (5,862) and receiving touchdowns (56), has also long been a dependable and favorite target for quarterback Lamar Jackson, with both players entering the league the same year.
A third-round pick out of Oklahoma in 2018, Andrews quickly emerged as a go-to in Baltimore’s offense and developed into one of the NFL’s best receiving tight ends. A three-time Pro Bowl selection who was also first-team All-Pro in 2021, he is 28th among tight ends in career catches, 24th in receiving yards and 12th in receiving touchdowns.
AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementHe set the franchise record for receiving yards earlier this season in a Week 11 win over the Cleveland Browns and in Thursday night’s loss to the Cincinnati Bengals broke the mark for career receptions, too.
“I’m extremely thankful,” he said of the record after the victory over the Browns. “It’s extremely humbling just to think about all the players, the coaches and this incredible organization that I’ve been able to play for. Without them, none of that’s possible. It’s been a lot of hard work.”
His career hasn’t been without its tribulations, though.
Most notable among them was a fumble and dropped 2-point conversion pass with 1:33 remaining in a divisional round playoff game against the Buffalo Bills last season. The Bills went on to win, 27-25, to advance to the AFC championship.
AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementStill, the Ravens felt compelled to bring him back rather than trade him or let him become a free agent and in doing so the move could spell the end for the younger Likely or Kolar. Baltimore has around two dozen players due to be free agents, is tight on salary cap space and would like to sign Jackson to a contract extension sooner than later with a $74.5 million cap hit looming beginning in 2026.
Likely also hasn’t helped himself this season.
After suffering a broken foot during training camp, he missed the first three games of the season. Since returning he has just 18 catches for 223 yards and no touchdowns across nine games.
Likely also had the ball knocked out of his hands as he was about to cross the goal line Thursday night against the Bengals. It went out of the back of the end zone, resulting in a touchback for Cincinnati.
AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementKolar, meanwhile, has just eight catches for 105 yards and two touchdowns this season.
As for Andrews, the contract marks his third with the organization, a rarity, after he signed a four-year, $56 million extension in September 2021, the same year his rookie deal was due to expire. That made him the third-highest-paid tight end in the NFL at the time.
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