{"id":59173,"date":"2019-03-13T12:33:44","date_gmt":"2019-03-13T16:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonnfl.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=59173"},"modified":"2019-03-13T12:33:44","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T16:33:44","slug":"mark-ingram-signs-ravens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2019\/03\/13\/mark-ingram-signs-ravens\/","title":{"rendered":"Baltimore Ravens to Sign Running Back Mark Ingram"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eight-year NFL running back <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=IngrMa01,IngrMa00&amp;search=Mark+Ingram&amp;utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mark Ingram<\/a><\/strong> signed a three-year, $15 million contract with the <a href=\"http:\/\/lastwordonprofootball.com\/nfl-teams\/ravens\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Baltimore Ravens<\/a>. It came virtually minutes <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonnfl.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/2019\/03\/13\/earl-thomas-signs-ravens\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">after the club brought in<\/a> safety <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=ThomEa99,ThomEa00&amp;search=Earl+Thomas&amp;utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Earl Thomas<\/a><\/strong>. Ingram, a product of the University of Alabama, has spent the entirety of his NFL career with the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprofootball.com\/nfl-teams\/saints\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New Orleans Saints<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Former Saints\u2019 RB Mark Ingram intends to sign a three-year, $15 million deal with the Baltimore Ravens, per <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AdamSchefter?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@AdamSchefter<\/a> and me.   New Orleans offered 4.5 million per source. Baltimore it is for Ingram<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Dianna Russini (@DMRussini) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DMRussini\/status\/1105868626870059016?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 13, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h1><strong>Mark Ingram Will Sign Three-Year Contract With Baltimore Ravens<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Ingram served a four-game suspension to start the 2018 season, but returned for the final 12 games. Splitting playing time with fellow running back <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/K\/KamaAl00.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alvin Kamara<\/a>, <\/strong>Ingram finished his season with 645 rushing yards and six touchdowns on 138 rushing attempts. Additionally, Ingram added 21 receptions for 170 yards and a touchdown through the air.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Ingram initially entered the NFL as the New Orleans Saints\u2019 first-round pick in the 2011 NFL Draft. Playing in 10 games as a rookie, the Alabama product recorded 474 rushing yards and five touchdowns on 122 attempts. Throughout his career, Ingram has 6,007 rushing yards and 75 rushing touchdowns on 1,321 carries. Additionally, Ingram has 228 receptions, 1,598 receiving yards, and five receiving touchdowns to his name.<\/p>\n<p>Ingram\u2019s best season likely came back in 2017. Playing in all 16 games (starting 13), Ingram recorded a career-high 1,124 rushing yards and 12 touchdowns on 230 rushing attempts. On top of that, Ingram recorded a career-high 58 receptions for 416 yards while earning the second Pro-Bowl selection of his career.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to joining the NFL, Ingram spent three years at the University of Alabama. Throughout his collegiate tenure, Ingram recorded 3,261 rushing yards and 42 touchdowns on an effective 5.7 yards-per-carry. Ingram\u2019s best season came in 2009 when he recorded 1,658 rushing yards and 17 touchdowns on 271 attempts. The then-sophomore also recorded 32 receptions for 334 yards and three touchdowns. His impressive performance earned him First-Team All-American honors as well as the 2009 Heisman Trophy.<\/p>\n<p>Ingram starred in football and track &amp; field at\u00a0Flint Southwestern Academy in Flint, Michigan before heading to the University of Alabama.<\/p>\n<p>Main photo:<br \/>\n<a id=\"TiD5N42XQzFZ7Taush_-7A\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1097132038\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'TiD5N42XQzFZ7Taush_-7A',sig:'QWV4ceNT4x3wPeJ56cGNvIGL-IVKW-OFvDxodoorxSo=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1097132038',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Splitting playing time with Alvin Kamara, Mark Ingram finished his 2018 season with 645 rushing yards and six touchdowns on 138 rushing attempts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2376,"featured_media":59174,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36,28],"tags":[4547,61,493,309,40],"class_list":["post-59173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfl-news","category-saints","tag-2019-nfl-season","tag-football","tag-mark-ingram","tag-new-orleans-saints","tag-nfl"],"modified_by":"John Bava","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2376"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}