AP

The Ravens are picking higher than they’re used to this year, but it’s not the sixth overall pick they’re focusing on.

Ravens assistant general manager Eric DeCosta said he’s more worried about the four fourth-rounders the team has put hands on, as they try to restock after a season gone horribly wrong.

“We just got to nail them,” DeCosta said of those fourths, via Clifton Brown of CSNMidAtlantic.com. “If we have a crystal ball, and we look back on this draft five years from now, we’re going to say this draft was either made or broken by the fourth-round picks. We’ve got four fourth-round picks. We got to get some starters in those fourth-round picks. Our challenge will be to get four starters with those picks and nail those guys, because I know we’re going to do that in the first three. But those fourth-rounders, . . . that will be the value of this draft class.”

The Ravens have three of the first 70 picks, though G.M. Ozzie Newsome was critical of his own recent work in sticking high picks.

But with seven of the first 134 picks, they have plenty more swings, and more swings gives you a better chance to hit the pinata. In addition to their own fourth (104th overall), they own Denver’s (130th) from a previous deal which involved center Gino Gradkowski, and a pair of compensatory picks (132nd and 134th).

While getting Joe Flacco back on the field will be the biggest step they can make, giving him some help with premium picks will be integral to turning things around.