With 18 unrestricted free agents, one prominent restricted free agent and a host of candidates to have their contracts extended, altered or eliminated from the books, the Baltimore Ravens will have a number of decisions to make over the next couple of months.

Ravens Wire is monitoring all of the cuts, re-signings, trades, restructures and new signings from earlier this month through free agency, which officially kicks off Wednesday.

The first stage of the player acquisition period of the NFL offseason is here. The league's free agency period started at noon Monday. That's when the official "negotiation window" opened up for teams to reach out to players' agents and start talking about and reaching agreement on deals.