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The Baltimore Ravens are getting Calais Campbell back. The six-time Pro Bowl defensive end, who turns 40 on September 1, has agreed to a one-year contract with Baltimore, ESPN's Adam Schefter reported on Thursday.
Campbell previously played for the Ravens from 2020 to 2022 and is now set to suit up for his 19th season in the league.
The Athletic's Jeff Zrebiec reported the deal is worth around $5.5 million.
Campbell spent last season with the Arizona Cardinals, where he started all 17 games and produced 6.5 sacks. He is returning to a building he knows well, joining a team now operating under first-year head coach Jesse Minter, who served as the Ravens' defensive backs coach during Campbell's first stint there.
Six-time Pro-Bowl DE Calais Campbell, who played in Baltimore from 2020-2022, is returning to sign a one-year deal with the Ravens, per source. Campbell will 40 on Sept. 1 and this will be his 19th NFL season. pic.twitter.com/9j73pAI6xk
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) April 30, 2026Campbell fills a real defensive need for Baltimore after a rough 2025 season
The Ravens finished 24th in total defense last year, largely because their standout defensive tackle, Nnamdi Madubuike, missed 15 games with a neck injury.
Madubuike is expected back for 2026. But with Broderick Washington also working back from a torn Achilles, Baltimore needed another productive body on the front, and Campbell delivered that as recently as 10 months ago.
His 2025 numbers at Arizona hold up against almost anyone; 15% pass-rush win rate, which was tied for second-best in the league among all defensive tackles.
He has appeared in 278 regular-season games. The record for a defensive lineman is 282, set by Jim Marshall between 1960 and 1979. One full season in Baltimore puts him in the conversation for that mark.
Whether Campbell has enough left to be a difference-maker in 2026 is the only real question. Based on everything he did last year, betting against him still seems like the wrong call in my opinion.
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