The person spoke on condition of anonymity Tuesday because the Ravens have not announced the decision.
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The move comes after the Ravens were one of the most disappointing teams in the league this season, going 8-9 and missing the playoffs after entering Week 1 as a Super Bowl favorite. Baltimore’s season ended Sunday night when Tyler Loop missed a last-second field goal, allowing Pittsburgh to hold on for a 26-24 victory in the game that decided the AFC North title.
Harbaugh was 193-124 including the postseason. He led the 2012 Ravens to a Super Bowl title and reached the AFC championship three other times. This season was just the sixth time Baltimore missed the postseason under Harbaugh. That’s the same number of times the Ravens won the AFC North with him at the helm.
But most of Baltimore’s postseason success came in its first few seasons. The Ravens reached the AFC title game three times in his first five years as coach, culminating in their run to a wild card Super Bowl title when Harbaugh beat his brother Jim’s San Francisco 49ers for the title.
At the time, Harbaugh was 9-4 in the postseason, but he was just 4-7 after that. After three straight seasons without a playoff berth, Lamar Jackson arrived in 2018 and led Baltimore to a division title. But Harbaugh’s only trip to an AFC title game with Jackson was squandered two seasons ago when Baltimore lost at home to Kansas City.
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This season was a disaster practically from the start, with Baltimore looking great for much of its first game in Buffalo before blowing a late lead. In fact, blowing fourth-quarter leads became a worrying trend for the Ravens in Harbaugh’s final seasons, and after a hamstring injury sidelined Jackson, Baltimore stumbled to a 1-5 start in 2025.
Harbaugh and the Ravens returned to contention and ultimately entered Sunday’s winner-take-all matchup as favorites to beat the Steelers. But despite Derrick Henry’s early dominance on the field and Jackson’s sensational fourth quarter, another season ended in unbearable fashion.
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AP Pro Football Writer Rob Maaddi contributed to this report.