Baltimore Beatdown
The former 2014 first-round pick for the Baltimore Ravens has retired.
After Ray Lewis retired from the Baltimore Ravens following their Super Bowl XLVII win, the team needed to ask for the impossible: a replacement.
Two years later, they came as close one can fairly ask when drafting Alabama linebacker C.J. Mosley with the No. 17 pick in the 2014 NFL Draft.
Immediately, Mosley became a force, earning Pro Bowl and Second-Team All-Pro honors and second in Defensive Rookie of the Year voting, behind Aaron Donald.
Mosley would play five seasons for the Ravens and delivered four Pro Bowl and Second-Team All-Pro seasons. And after a 10-year career, bisecting his time between Ravens and New York Jets, he has called it a career.
Mosley started all 77 games he played for the Ravens and totaled 579 tackles, 43 tackles for loss, six forced fumbles, six fumble recoveries, nine interceptions and two defensive touchdowns.
His nickname at one point was “half-man, half-amazing,” and he was. To step into the impossibly large middle linebacker role for the Ravens following Lewis and deliver the way Mosley did was nothing short of amazing.
