The Ravens grabbed their quarterback of the future with an aggressive move, upgraded their depth at cornerback with a favorable trade and bolstered their special teams throughout the NFL draft.
But did the Ravens upgrade their roster enough this weekend to go from the bottom of the AFC North to the top of it?
Unless Joe Flacco shows that he can start immediately -- and it seems like the best plan is to have him sit -- the Ravens won't see immediate dividends from this draft beyond special teams.
That's why the team appears to have more ground to make up on the likes of the Pittsburgh Steelers and Cleveland Browns in the division.
"We tried to get big, fast, smart and tough," said Eric DeCosta, the Ravens' director of college scouting. "I think we accomplished that. Hopefully, next year at this time, we can look back on this draft and feel really good about it. I think we will."
This draft will ultimately be judged on Flacco because selecting him was a move that goes against the Ravens' golden history.
Flacco, who played at Delaware, is just the second small-school player taken in the first three rounds by the Ravens and the only one selected by the team in the first round. And the Ravens, who rarely jump to get a player in the opening round, traded up to draft Flacco at No. 18, a spot where many consider it a reach.
But no one should compare Flacco to Boston College's Matt Ryan over the years. The Ravens had Ryan as the top-rated quarterback and tried to move up to get him.
The more legitimate argument will be Flacco versus Louisville's Brian Brohm (56th overall) and Michigan's Chad Henne (57th), who were available when the Ravens drafted late in the second round.
If Flacco isn't clearly better than Brohm and Henne, there will be criticism that the Ravens paid too much to get him, trading the No. 26 overall pick they had moved down to, a third-round pick and a sixth-round pick to the Houston Texans.
This move was similar to the one in 2003, when the Ravens jumped back up in the first round to get Kyle Boller. But the Ravens had the benefit of having already drafted linebacker Terrell Suggs that year.
Beyond Flacco, there was no such flash in the Ravens' draft.
This was a workmanlike weekend for the Ravens, who traded four times and came away with some of the most hard-nosed and aggressive players in the draft.
After assessing the draft, this is how the Ravens' roster grades out against the rest of the league:
