Dennis Pitta Reportedly Agrees to Restructured Contract with Baltimore Ravens

Tight end Dennis Pitta and the Baltimore Ravens agreed to a restructured contract Friday, according to NFL Network's Mike Garafolo. 

Jason La Canfora of CBS Sports confirmed the move.

Pitta, 31, was initially scheduled to earn base salaries of $5.5 million with $7.7 million cap hits each of the next two seasons before becoming an unrestricted free agent in 2019. 

Although Pitta's career was considered to be in jeopardy after he missed the entire 2015 season due to serious hip injuries, he bounced back in a big way during the 2016 campaign. 

Appearing in all 16 games, Pitta caught a career-high 86 passes on 121 targets to lead all tight ends last season. Pitta also finished 2016 with a career-high 729 receiving yards while finding paydirt twice. 

"As long as my hip was in place, I feel good about being able to be out there," Pitta said in December, according to Ryan Mink of the team's official website. "My hip has felt great all year."

Now seemingly back at 100 percent, Pitta should continue to line up as Baltimore's No. 1 tight end and Joe Flacco's most trusted target. 

The key moving forward for Flacco and Co. will be finding ways to get Pitta more involved in the red zone after he mustered two scores a season ago. 

But with Steve Smith Sr. out of the picture and the Ravens' receiving corps lacking other established red-zone threats, Pitta should be in line for a scoring bump assuming he's able to stay on the field and burn defenses up the seams. 

 

Contract information courtesy of Spotrac.com unless noted otherwise. 

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