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Ravens Insider: Yannick Ngakoue signing with Ravens’ practice squad to help bolster pass rush


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A familiar face is returning to the Ravens.

Outside linebacker Yannick Ngakoue is signing with Baltimore’s practice squad, a source with direct knowledge confirmed to The Baltimore Sun on Monday. ESPN’s Adam Schefter first reported the news.

Ngakoue, 29, spent part of the 2020 season with the Ravens after Baltimore traded a 2021 third-round pick and 2022 conditional fifth-round pick to the Minnesota Vikings in exchange for the former 2015 third-rounder out of Maryland. He played nine games (three starts) for the Ravens that season and had three sacks, 11 tackles, two forced fumbles and a pass defensed.

The move is mildly surprising with Baltimore having racked up the ninth-most sacks in the NFL with 10 through the first three weeks.

But he also brings experience to a mostly young pass rush group with four of the Ravens’ five outside linebackers age 25 or younger. Only Kyle Van Noy, 33, is older.

After playing briefly in Baltimore, Ngakoue signed a two-year, $26 million deal with the Raiders and went on to lead Las Vegas in sacks with 10 in 2021.

The Raiders then traded Ngakoue to the Indianapolis Colts, for whom he tallied 9 1/2 sacks in 15 games. A free agent last year, he signed a one-year, $10.5 million deal with the Chicago Bears and had four sacks, seven quarterback hits and 22 tackles in 13 games alongside Montez Sweat before suffering a season-ending broken ankle.

Ngakoue recorded at least eight sacks each of his first seven years in the league, which included his first four years in the NFL with the Jacksonville Jaguars before being traded to the Vikings in August 2020. The Washington native has 69 career sacks in 123 games.

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