The Baltimore Ravens acquired Atlanta Falcons center Ryan Neuzil at Tuesday’s NFL trade deadline, sending guard Andrew Vorhees and a reported conditional 2028 sixth-round draft pick to Atlanta, the team announced. Ravens Wire, citing ESPN’s Adam Schefter, also described the pick as a 2028 sixth-rounder; the Ravens’ own release called the draft compensation a “reported conditional” sixth-round pick.
Neuzil, a fifth-year veteran originally undrafted out of Appalachian State in 2021, has been Atlanta’s starting center this season and started all 17 games last year, the team said. Ravens Wire said he is 29, has appeared in 69 games with 38 starts, and started the Falcons’ first nine games this season. Baltimore had already traded for Pro Bowl center Cam Jurgens, who has started the past two games, the team said, and listed first-round rookie Vega Ioane and veteran John Simpson as starting guards. The Ravens said they had an excess at guard — Vorhees and Emery Jones Jr. as reserves — and no clear backup at center, which had forced Ioane to fill in for two starts. They released center/guard Kyle Hergel when the trade was completed. Vorhees had played in five games and made two starts this season because of injuries, the team said; Ravens Wire added that he had appeared in 22 games with 14 starts since a 2023 seventh-round selection, after missing his rookie year with a torn ACL.
The team said Neuzil has the 15th-highest Pro Football Focus grade among NFL centers who have played at least 50% of their team’s snaps this season, a PFF figure cited by the club, and could cross-train at guard. He will reunite with Ravens offensive line coach Dwayne Ledford, who coached him in Atlanta. Ravens Wire, citing Jeff Zrebiec of The Athletic, said Baltimore views Neuzil primarily as versatile depth rather than an immediate replacement for Jurgens, and noted that Ethan Pocic and Jovaughn Gwyn are on injured reserve and Danny Pinter tore a patellar tendon in training camp. Neuzil signed a two-year, reported $9.5 million extension before the 2025 season and is in a contract year, the team said; a later free-agent departure could, but would not automatically, yield a compensatory pick. Baltimore is 4-5 and last in the AFC North after earlier adding Jurgens and quarterback Jacoby Brissett, the team said. Ravens Wire said Neuzil could be in the mix for a Monday night game against the Chargers; this report does not assume he will start or play.