Ravens Finalize Brissett Trade After Third Straight 20-Point Blowout

Featured image: Jacoby Brissett (No. 7) at Cleveland Browns training camp on Aug. 15, 2022, with Josh Rosen (file photo). Photo: Erik Drost, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0

The Baltimore Ravens finalized their trade for Arizona Cardinals quarterback Jacoby Brissett on Friday, Nov. 6, 2026, sending a 2027 fourth-round pick and a 2028 seventh-round pick to Arizona in exchange for Brissett and a 2027 fifth-round selection, according to the Ravens, NFL.com and reporting from ESPN’s Adam Schefter and NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport. The deal closes a week of quarterback turmoil in Baltimore after Lamar Jackson and Tyler Huntley both landed on injured reserve and undrafted rookie Joe Fagnano started Thursday night’s 33-10 loss to the Jacksonville Jaguars.

How the Ravens-Cardinals Brissett trade works

Baltimore acquires Brissett plus Arizona’s 2027 fifth-round pick. Arizona receives Baltimore’s 2027 fourth-rounder and a 2028 seventh-round pick, Schefter and Rapoport reported. The Cardinals also paid more than half of Brissett’s remaining 2026 salary to get the deal done, Rapoport said.

Before the swap closed, Arizona restructured Brissett’s contract, converting about $2.7 million of his remaining roughly $5.4 million salary into a signing bonus, ESPN’s Field Yates reported. Under that structure, the Ravens owe Brissett a base salary of about $2.43 million, with incentives that can raise his earnings. The financial help from Arizona was a key piece of a deal first reported midweek and held until after Thursday Night Football.

Brissett, 33, is in his 11th NFL season and has made 73 career starts across seven franchises, the Ravens said. He started Arizona’s first eight games of 2026 and completed 63.3% of his passes for 1,719 yards, 10 touchdowns and seven interceptions before the Cardinals benched him for Gardner Minshew II, with rookie Carson Beck named the backup, NFL.com reported. Baltimore becomes the sixth team for which he has started a game.

Jackson, Huntley out; Fagnano’s rough TNF debut

The trade fills a hole created by injuries at the top of Baltimore’s depth chart. Jackson, the two-time MVP, is on injured reserve with a thumb injury that reporting indicates will require surgery and could end his season; the Ravens have not closed the door on a return but have not set a firm timetable beyond the IR minimum. Huntley, who filled in after Jackson’s injury, suffered a turf toe injury that sources told Schefter and Rapoport will sideline him for the rest of the year.

That left Fagnano, an undrafted rookie, to start against Jacksonville on a short week. He completed 10 of 18 passes for 60 yards with two interceptions in the 33-10 home loss, according to the Associated Press and ESPN’s game recap. Baltimore was held under 14 points for a fourth straight game — another franchise first — and fell to 4-5, last in the AFC North.

Coach Jesse Minter told reporters after the Jaguars game that there were “no excuses” for the performance, NFL.com reported, even as the offense leaned on Derrick Henry in Wildcat looks and managed only 10 first downs. The defense, meanwhile, allowed 30-plus points for a third consecutive week.

By the numbers: a historic three-game blowout skid

The Ravens’ recent results are not just a losing streak — they are historically lopsided. Per the team’s 2026 schedule and ESPN/AP recaps, Baltimore’s last four results are a 13-10 loss at Cleveland, a 35-13 loss to Cincinnati, a 36-10 loss to Buffalo and Thursday’s 33-10 defeat to Jacksonville. The margins against the Bengals, Bills and Jaguars were 22, 26 and 23 points — the first time in franchise history the Ravens have lost three straight games by at least 20 points.

TBR calculations from those box scores show Baltimore was outscored 104-33 across the three blowouts alone (a −71 point differential) and 117-43 across the full four-game skid (−74). The Ravens scored 10 or fewer points in three of the four games and have not topped 13 since Week 5. That collapse is the backdrop for paying draft capital for a veteran who can start Monday night against the Los Angeles Chargers.

What Brissett brings — and what he does not fix alone

Brissett is expected to start Monday Night Football against the Chargers, the Ravens and NFL.com reported. He will reunite with Baltimore quarterbacks coach Israel Woolfork, who held the same job with Brissett in Arizona last season; the two also worked together with the Cleveland Browns in 2022.

Running back Derrick Henry said the team needs “all hands on deck” and that Brissett “can come in and help us,” per the Ravens’ announcement. Left tackle Ronnie Stanley struck a more measured note, saying Brissett’s experience “will bode well” but that “there’s a lot of things that we need to fix on our end” and that no single arrival solves every problem.

Baltimore’s remaining November stretch offers a softer schedule on paper after facing Cincinnati, Buffalo and Jacksonville: the Chargers, Panthers, Texans and Buccaneers all had losing records at the time of the trade announcement, the Ravens noted. Playoff odds were listed around 12% after Thursday’s loss, NFL.com reported — a reminder that stabilizing the offense is urgent, not optional.

The move also fits a broader NFL midseason pattern of teams patching quarterback rooms after injuries and poor starts, a theme that has already reshaped other AFC races this fall, including the Broncos’ climb past Kansas City and a Washington win that extended the Eagles’ six-game slide. League business off the field remains in flux as well after an appeals court revived the NFL Sunday Ticket antitrust verdict, underscoring how costly and contested the sport’s economics remain even as clubs deal for stopgap starters.

For Arizona, Minshew starts and Beck backs him up as the Cardinals look ahead. For Baltimore, Brissett is the bridge: a 73-start veteran on a reduced salary, reunited with his quarterbacks coach, walking into a locker room that has lost four straight and been blown out three times in a row for the first time in club history. Monday night against the Chargers is the first test of whether that bridge holds.

Sources

• Baltimore Ravens — Ravens Finalize Trade for Jacoby Brissett
• NFL.com — Ravens complete trade for Cardinals’ Jacoby Brissett; deal terms revealed
• ESPN — Ravens complete trade for Cardinals QB Jacoby Brissett (Schefter/Rapoport/Yates)
• Associated Press — Fagnano endures rough first NFL start in Ravens’ loss to Jags
• ESPN — Jaguars 33-10 Ravens game recap
• Baltimore Ravens — 2026 schedule / results
• NFL.com — Ravens’ play ‘not acceptable’ in latest blowout loss to Jaguars