The Ravens Reportedly Want Tyson Bagent, and the Bears Should Make the Deal ...Middle East

The Ravens have a quarterback problem, and they think the Bears can solve it.

Baltimore lost 36-10 in Buffalo on Sunday, its third straight defeat, and lost most of its quarterback room along the way. Lamar Jackson took a hit to his throwing hand from Greg Rousseau on his first dropback, and he’s headed to injured reserve with a thumb injury that Jesse Minter said could potentially end his season. Tyler Huntley left with a toe injury. Undrafted rookie Joe Fagnano finished the game 10-of-21 for 91 yards and an interception, then got his ankle treated on the sideline.

The Ravens play Jacksonville on Thursday night. And according to Jason La Canfora of SI, the quarterback at the top of their wish list is Tyson Bagent. Multiple high-ranking personnel executives told La Canfora that Bagent is Baltimore’s top target, and the Ravens have already reached out to Chicago.

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Why Tyson Bagent Makes Sense for Baltimore

It doesn’t take long to connect the dots. Declan Doyle, now the Ravens’ offensive coordinator, held the same title under Ben Johnson in Chicago last season. He worked with Bagent every day, and the offense he’s running in Baltimore borrows heavily from the one Bagent already knows.

With a Thursday kickoff on the schedule, that familiarity matters. Signing a free agent means flying someone in, working him out, getting him through a physical and teaching him a playbook in about 72 hours. Bagent could walk into the building and call plays in a language he already speaks.

This isn’t the first time someone has asked. La Canfora reports that Chicago turned away every inquiry about Bagent over the summer, believing he’s a valuable backup in Johnson’s system. One GM summed up the Bears’ position: “Chicago doesn’t have to trade him.”

The Jefferey Simmons Trade Cuts Both Ways For the Bears

I wrote Thursday that trading two first-round picks for Jeffery Simmons was the right move, and I still feel that way. But that trade is also the reason this Bagent conversation is more complicated than it looks.

Start with the case for listening. The Bears sent their 2027 and 2028 firsts, plus a 2027 fourth-rounder, to Tennessee. Poles won’t have a first-round pick in either of the next two drafts, and a desperate team calling about your backup quarterback is one of the few chances to recoup some of that capital midseason. Baltimore is about as desperate as it gets. The Ravens are 4-4; their franchise quarterback might be done for the year.

Bagent’s play this season doesn’t make him untouchable, either. He appeared in three games and started two, going 1-1, while completing 42 of 64 passes for 409 yards with no touchdowns and three interceptions. That’s about what you’d expect from a backup, and not much more.

Now the case for hanging up. The Simmons trade only pays off if Caleb Williams is on the field in January, and this team already knows how quickly that can change. Williams missed three games with a hamstring injury earlier this season. Case Keenum started one of them, against the Eagles in Week 3, and Bagent started the other two.

Keenum is 38, has more than 60 career starts, and re-signed this spring on a two-year, $5.5 million deal. He’s as good a third quarterback as there is in the league. But trade Bagent, and Keenum becomes the only thing standing between a Williams injury and the season Poles just bet two first-round picks on. The Bears would also need to find another emergency option behind him. That’s a lot of risk for a team that just went all-in.

Chicago Holds the Cards

The calendar helps the Bears here. They face the Seahawks in Seattle on Monday night, and Baltimore needs a quarterback ready by Thursday. For Bagent to get even a practice or two in with a new team, a deal would realistically have to come together Monday or Tuesday. The trade deadline isn’t until Nov 10 at 3 p.m. CT.

Baltimore does have other options. La Canfora mentioned Broncos third-stringer Sam Ehlinger, who plays in a Denver offense run by Sean Payton, Doyle’s primary mentor. Arizona’s Jacoby Brissett has also come up. Although, Brissett was benched by the Cardinals today, and hasn’t been great this season. But neither knows Doyle’s offense the way Bagent does, and that familiarity is Chicago’s leverage.

I understand the Keenum concern. But I’m not sure the Bears will ever have more leverage in a Bagent deal than they do right now. Think about everything that had to line up. A team had to lose its starter and its backup on the same afternoon, with a short week ahead. Its offensive coordinator had to have spent last season coaching Bagent in the same system. And all of it had to happen nine days before the deadline. Baltimore checks every box.

That combination doesn’t come around often. In the offseason, teams looking for a backup will have months to shop and plenty of veterans to choose from, and Bagent will have one year left on his deal. His value is probably as high right now as it’s going to get.

The Bears can absorb the hit, too. Keenum has already started a game for this team this season, and a Day 2 pick from a team with no real alternative would help Poles replace some of what he sent to Tennessee for Simmons.

Chicago doesn’t have to make this trade. That’s exactly why it can get the price it wants, and why it should.

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