Odafe Oweh will become 1st Raven with double-digit sacks since 2017

Oweh arrived in Baltimore sick to death of hearing about the zero sacks he recorded in his final season at Penn State. Critics used this handy data point as a cudgel to suggest he was all workout sizzle, no game-day steak. He put this behind him with a productive rookie season, but he came out of it believing he still had much room to grow. We saw the wrath of Oweh 2.0 throughout training camp and in brief glimpses of preseason action. He was more violent with his hands, harder to hit cleanly as he came around the edge. In other words, he was unblockable.

Even as a rookie, relying on frenetic effort and athleticism more than patient analysis and technique, Oweh recorded five sacks and 15 quarterback hits in 15 games. He will play far more snaps this year under a new defensive coordinator, Macdonald, who squeezed incredible production from a pair of talented edge rushers at Michigan last year. Everything points to him becoming the team’s most productive sack artist since Terrell Suggs, who hit double digits for the last time (with 11) five years ago.