Technically, the Ravens selected only one player in the first round of the 2016 NFL Draft. For all practical purposes, they actually got two.
However, the boatload of talent found in former Notre Dame tackle Ronnie Stanley and former Central Florida receiver Breshad Perriman also has its own dichotomy: proven quality and unproven potential. It is a duo that brings with it as many questions as answers, the epitome of the crapshoot nature of the draft.
But with the Ravens having posted three straight third-place AFC North finishes, missing the playoffs after two of the last three seasons and posting a mediocre 23-25 regular-season record since winning Super Bowl XLVII, it will largely be up to the first-round pair to return the team to top-level status.
The most recent Ravens top pick, Stanley, is a consensus All-America who was taken with this year's sixth overall selection and has been immediately tabbed to start. The Ravens seem so confident in his ability that veteran Eugene Monroe was released to make room for him to take extra repetitions and to win the left offensive tackle job unopposed.
