Zay Flowers Camp Update — August 31: The Extension Was Already Signed
2026 NFL Season · Monday, Aug 31
Our last episode kept the Zay Flowers extension question open. It was already answered — Flowers signed a four-year deal on August fourth, weeks before that episode aired, and we missed it. On the field, a second straight quiet week: the veterans sat the finale and the receiver room cut six players.
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We start by correcting ourselves. Our last episode said no contract news had surfaced on Zay Flowers and told you to watch for movement on the extension question the June preview left open. That was wrong when we said it. Flowers and the Ravens agreed to a four-year, 140 million dollar extension — 108 million guaranteed, 35 million a year, an average that ties Justin Jefferson — on August fourth, per Clifton Brown at the team's site, nearly three weeks before that episode aired. General manager Eric DeCosta called him "tough, competitive, durable, a premier talent and a foundational football player," and Brown's piece carries Flowers, from the spring, calling new coordinator Declan Doyle "a genius." None of that is this week's news, and we won't pretend it is; it is the record, corrected.
The week itself was Flowers's second straight without a reported rep. He is not named in Tony Lombardi's account of Wednesday's joint practice against Washington at Russell Street Report, and the veterans sat Friday's 41 to three finale behind Tyler Huntley, per Quentin Corpuel at the team's site. The room around him churned instead: the roster Baltimore announced Sunday keeps six receivers — Flowers, Rashod Bateman, Ja'Kobi Lane, Devontez Walker, Elijah Sarratt and LaJohntay Wester — per Ryan Mink at the team's site, with six waived, including Chris Moore, cut one day after a three-catch, 54-yard, one-touchdown finale, per Jeff Zrebiec at The Athletic. Wester finished the preseason with two receiving touchdowns after entering the summer with zero career receptions, per Corpuel, though the reporting reads his value as special teams first, not targets.
For a first-time listener, the June preview called Flowers the cleanest profile on this roster — a target share just under 30 percent last season, 17 games played, with a low touchdown count as the number most likely to move up — and an August in which he barely appears in print was never going to move that case either way. What August did settle, before we even asked, was the money. The watch line's other half — whether he would take snaps against Washington — is answered: he did not, and the finale came Friday, not the Saturday we had written. We'll be back when the real games give us something to count.
_Data via nflverse._
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