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Every offseason, without fail, one of the biggest buzz words in the NFL is "multiple." Every coach in the league talks about how they want to be multiple on defense. Three-man fronts. Four-man fronts. Nickel, dime, and base. In the offseason, everyone wants to do everything. But once the real games roll around, not quite as many teams are as multiple as they claimed they'd be. That's true largely because they don't have the personnel to operate that.The are at the opposite end of the spectrum. They're exactly as multiple as they claim they'd like to be every B.J. Finney Jersey offseason because that's how they build their roster. Sure, they have players who do one specific thing will and are only asked to do that one specific thing, but they also prioritize finding versatile players who can fill different roles on any given snap. And this year is no different.In and , the Ravens brought in two players with extensive experience playing both on the interior and on the edge. And for Campbell, specifically, playing on both the right and left edges. Pa s rushers like and Tyus Boswer have been used equally often from both sides of the line of scrimmage, which has allowed Matthew Judon (right) and (left) to lean more heavily to one side of the formation.The chart below shows where several Ravens front seven players have lined up over the past three seasons (2017-19), broken down into plays on the interior, the right and left edges, and inside linebacker. All snap percentages come via Pro Football Focus game charting.DL/LB% IDL% EDGE RT% EDGE T.J. Watt Jersey LT% ILBDerek Wolfe62.9%35.7%1.1%0.3%Calais Campbell18.0%38.0%43.2%0.8%96.3%1.7%1.6%0.4%Jaylon Ferguson6.9%52.5%40.0%0.6%0.0%44.2%48.0%7.8%Matthew Judon0.7%36.1%55.3%8.0%Pernell McPhee2.2%60.1%33.3%4.4%Campbell actually has even more versatility than it appears, because he was almost exclusively an interior defensive lineman during his days with the before shifting primarily to the edge when he was with the . McPhee has also been utilized far more creatively by Baltimore than he was with Chicago or Washington, where he spent the 2015 through 2018 seasons. The Ravens will line him up on either edge, but also over the nose or even as a stand-up linebacker John Leglue Jersey on occasion. The only guy here who really has just one job is nose tackle Brandon Williams, who is simply one of the best run-stuffers in the league. The wealth of depth they have outside of him allows the Ravens to limit Williams to doing what he does best, and still confront opposing offensive lines with one of the best fronts in the .The multiplicity also extends to the back end of Baltimore's defense. The Ravens have joined the ranks of teams who place a high priority on loading the field with defensive backs, and they have prioritized versatility within that unit. While is primarily the free safety and and are primarily outside corners, everyone has the ability to move around the formation. The chart below shows where Baltimore's defensive backs have lined up over the past three seasons, broken down by the percentage of time they aligned as a box safety, high safety, slot corner, outside corner, and linebacker or lineman.DB% Box% High% Slot% Outside% DL/LB46.2%19.9%15.3%4.1%14.5%Earl Thomas18.1%69.1%7.6%1.7%3.4%51.8%1.8%14.5%4.9%26. Christian Kuntz Jersey 9%6.2%0.2%26.7%66.0%0.9%Marcus Peters6.9%0.3%7.8%83.6%1.3%Jimmy Smith4.7%0.4%4.6%89.3%1.0%11.9%3.9%20.2%61.7%2.2%As you can see, Thomas can move around quite a bit despite being primarily a center-field type, and the Ravens supplement him with two different kinds of box safeties in Chuck Clark and Anthony Levine. Peters and Smith are almost exclusively perimeter corners, but Humphrey went from playing 80 to 90 percent of his snaps on the outside in 2017 and 2018 to playing more than 70 percent in the slot last NFL Pittsburgh Steelers Jersey season. Having Carr as the No. 4 cornerback is a coup, because his versatility allows him to fill in for any of the three players ahead of him in the rotation on any given snap, and even to slide to safety in a pinch. This group of 14 players represents about two-thirds of Baltimore's defensive depth chart, and they allow the Ravens to show a ton of different looks throughout any given game, depending on what the situation calls for. They've replenished their linebacker corps by selecting and in the draft, and they now have and behind Campbell, Wolfe, and Williams up front. Add flexible Iowa safety to the safety group and it's easy to see how this team could remain versatile and multiple for years to come.