Baltimore Ravens tight end Mark Andrews committed a pair of costly mistakes in a 27-25 divisional-round playoff loss at the Buffalo Bills this past January.
Ahead of the 2025 NFL Draft that gets underway on Thursday night, Andrews addressed what went wrong during what could be the final game of his Baltimore tenure.
"That's sports, man. Things happen," Andrews told Jamison Hensley of ESPN for a piece published Tuesday. "I know the type of player that I am, what I can do, and it is what it is. It was tough, wasn't the best game and I'm looking forward to redemption."
Andrews lost a fumble near midfield in the fourth quarter of the postseason defeat that occurred in snowy Buffalo. He later dropped a pass that hit him in the stomach on what should've become a game-tying two-point conversion play with 1:33 remaining in the fourth quarter.
In his latest comments, Andrews acknowledged his gloves were "soaked" from the previous play before he failed to reel in the two-point conversion pass.
"I'm thinking, 'Do I take it off? Do I not?' It was so fast and so quick that it just happened," Andrews explained. "And at the end of the day, I still should have caught the ball. I still should have made that play."
Andrews was the subject of numerous trade rumors even before Ravens general manager Eric DeCosta recently hinted he could make the 29-year-old available to other teams before the draft wraps up this coming Saturday. The Ravens have tight ends Isaiah Likely and Charlie Kolar under contract for 2025, while Andrews is in the final year of his deal.
According to Hensley, Baltimore would gain $11M in salary-cap space by parting ways with Andrews this spring.
"I know the Ravens and my relationship is incredibly strong, and I trust in [DeCosta] and everybody there over at the Ravens," Andrews said about his uncertain future. "And there's nothing on my end really to share. For me, it's just been working hard this offseason and trying to get in the best shape of my life, trying to have the best season of my life coming up and winning a Super Bowl."
One would think the win-now Ravens would want to give star quarterback Lamar Jackson as many weapons as possible to help Jackson in his pursuit of a first career Super Bowl appearance. That said, DeCosta could determine that finding Andrews' replacement during the draft and then trading the veteran is what's best for the Ravens' future.
