2025 · Week 2 · Division

Final

Browns

Cleveland

QB Joe Flacco

17·41

Ravens

Baltimore

QB Lamar Jackson

M&T Bank Stadium · outdoors · grass · 82°F · wind 3mph

Closing spread

BAL -12.5

Total

46.5

Model margin

+1.6est.

BAL perspective

Push chance

None

half-point line — cannot push

Win probability

  • Ravens
  • Browns

How each play moved the game.

Ravens winsBrowns wins

Matchup

Where the edges are

Season-long league percentiles for both sides, mirrored. The saturated side of a lopsided row holds the edge.

Brownsedge mapRavens
  • -0.176EPA / play+0.037
  • 35.2%Success rate44.6%
  • -0.212EPA / dropback+0.036
  • -0.115EPA / rush+0.038
  • 6.1%Explosive rate10.4%
  • -5.66CPOE+2.86
  • 33.8%Third-down rate41.4%
  • 48.2%Red-zone TD rate57.3%
  • 1.18Points / drive2.30
  • 2.2%Turnover rate2.2%

Bar length is league percentile, already oriented so longer is better. The saturated side of a lopsided row holds the edge; rows within ~12 points are washed as even.

The rivalry

BAL lead 39–15 since 1999

BAL have won 3 straight. Meetings average 40.6 points. BAL are 29-24-1 ATS in the series.

Previous meetings
SeasonMatchupScoreWinner
2025 · W11BAL @ CLE2316BAL
2024 · W18CLE @ BAL1035BAL
2024 · W8BAL @ CLE2429CLE
2023 · W10CLE @ BAL3331CLE
2023 · W4BAL @ CLE283BAL
2022 · W15BAL @ CLE313CLE
2022 · W7CLE @ BAL2023BAL
2021 · W14BAL @ CLE2224CLE

Box score

Individual performances

Browns

Passing

PlayerC/AttYdsTDINT
Joe Flacco25/4519911
Dillon Gabriel3/31910

Rushing

PlayerCarYdsAvgTD
Quinshon Judkins10616.10
Jerome Ford6315.20
Isaiah Bond199.00
Joe Flacco188.00
Dylan Sampson461.50

Ravens

Passing

PlayerC/AttYdsTDINT
Lamar Jackson19/2922540

Rushing

PlayerCarYdsAvgTD
Derrick Henry11232.10
Lamar Jackson2136.50
Justice Hill372.30
Zay Flowers144.00
Mark Andrews122.00
Cooper Rush3-4-1.30

Where this game is likely to land

  • Model
  • Smooth (normal)
  • Betting line

Probability of each final margin. Football scoring clusters — the spikes at 3 and 7 are real, and a smooth model misses them.

line +12.57.5%3.0%4.6%2.9%

Positive margins favour Ravens; negative favour Browns.

Half-point at risk

1.53%

outcomes that flip if the line moves 0.5

Model home win

53.4%

Expected total

43.2est.

Model

Where the number comes from

Each component is additive, in points of expected margin.

  • Team ratings (opponent-adjusted EPA)+2.07
  • Home-field advantage+1.71
  • Quarterback adjustment-2.15
  • Rest differential0.00
  • Expected margin+1.62