Ryan Mallett’s Name Now Etched on the Baltimore Ravens Memorial Wall

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Former Ravens backup quarterback Ryan Mallett, who won a home start against Pittsburgh in 2015 as part of an unlikely sweep of the Steelers by an injury-riddled Baltimore team that year, has passed away in an apparent drowning accident.


The Baltimore Ravens Memorial Wall lists the Ravens players, coaches, fans, and administrators that have passed away since the team has been in Baltimore.
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-Safety Eric Turner, intestinal cancer, age 31; May 28, 2000
-Wide receivers coach Milt Jackson, heart attack, age 61; Aug. 23, 2005
-Tackle Bernard Dafney, heart attack, age 37; Jan. 11, 2006
-Guard Orlando Bobo, heart and liver failure, age 33; May 14, 2007
-Fullback Chuck Evans, heart attack, age 41; Oct. 12, 2008

-Quarterback Steve McNair, homicide, age 36; July 4, 2009
-Linebacker Tony Fein, morphine overdose, age 27; Oct. 6, 2009
-Fullback Kenyon Cotton, surgical complications, age 36; July 2010
-Tackle Orlando Brown, Sr., diabetic complications, age 40; Sept. 23, 2011
-Majority owner Art Modell, natural causes, age 87; Sept. 6, 2012

-Quarterback Cullen Finnerty, pneumonia/brain damage, age 30; May 27, 2013
-Tackle Damion Cook, heart attack, age 36; June 26, 2015
-Head coach Ted Marchibroda, natural causes, age 84; January 16, 2016
-Cornerback Tray Walker, dirt bike accident, age 23; March 18, 2016
-Long snapper Frank Wainright, cause unknown, age 48; April 5, 2016

-Asst. coach Clarence Brooks, esophageal cancer, age 65; September 17, 2016
-Tight end Konrad Reuland, brain aneurysm, age 29; December 12, 2016
-Team president David Modell, lung cancer, age 55; January 13, 2017
-Wide receiver Michael Jackson, motorcycle accident, age 48; May 12, 2017
-Wide receiver James Hardy, suicide, age 31; June 7, 2017

-Defensive end Ryan Jones, homicide, age 26; June 18, 2017
-Tight end Mitchell Henry, leukemia, age 24; June 30, 2017
-Guard Jeff Blackshear, pancreatic cancer, age 50; August 31, 2019
-Southwest area scout Ron Marciniak, cause unknown, age 85; March 23, 2020
-Superfan Mo Gaba, bone cancer, age 14; July 28, 2020

-Punter Greg Montgomery, suicide, age 55; August 23, 2020
-Running back Lorenzo Taliaferro, drug intoxication, age 28; December 16, 2020
-Left tackle Tony Jones, cause unknown, age 54; January 22, 2021
-Offensive coordinator Jim Fassel, heart attack, age 71; June 7, 2021
-Head of Security Darren Sanders, cancer, age 55; July 23, 2021

-Linebacker Jaylon Ferguson, drug overdose, age 26; June 22, 2022
-Defensive tackle Tony Siragusa, cause unknown, age 55; June 22, 2022
-Equipment manager Ed Carroll, cause unknown, age 75; October 5, 2022
-Defensive end Chris Smith, cause unknown, age 31; April 17, 2023
Quarterback Ryan Mallett, drowning, age 35; June 27, 2023

About Joe Platania

Veteran Ravens correspondent Joe Platania is in his 45th year in sports media (including two CFL seasons when Batlimore had a CFL team) in a career that extends across parts of six decades. Platania covers sports with insight, humor, and a highly prescient eye, and that is why he has made his mark on television, radio, print, online, and in the podcast world. He can be heard frequently on WJZ-FM’s “Vinny And Haynie” show, alongside ex-Washington general manager Vinny Cerrato and Bob Haynie. A former longtime member in good standing of the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association and the Pro Football Writers of America, Platania manned the CFL Stallions beat for The Avenue Newspaper Group of Essex (1994 and ’95) and the Ravens beat since the team’s inception — one of only three local writers to do so — for PressBox, The Avenue, and other local publications and radio stations. A sought-after contributor and host on talk radio and TV, he made numerous appearances on “Inside PressBox” (10:30 a.m. Sundays), and he was heard weekly for eight seasons on the “Purple Pride Report,” WQLL-AM (1370). He has also appeared on WMAR-TV’s “Good Morning Maryland” (2009), Comcast SportsNet’s “Washington Post Live” (2004-06), and WJZ-TV’s “Football Talk” postgame show — with legend Marty Bass (2002-04). Platania is the only sports journalist in Maryland history to have been a finalist for both the annual Sportscaster of the Year award (1998, which he won) and Sportswriter of the Year (2010). He is also a four-time Maryland-Delaware-District of Columbia Press Association award winner. Platania is a graduate of St. Joseph’s (Cockeysville), Calvert Hall College High School, and Towson University, where he earned a degree in Mass Communications. He lives in Cockeysville, MD.



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