The Baltimore Ravens signed nine players from their practice squad to reserve/future contracts on Monday, the day after the NFL team’s season ended in a 17-10 loss to the Kansas City Chiefs in the AFC Championship Game.

The players finished the season on the Baltimore practice squad and included three with Alabama football roots – guard Tykeem Doss (Aliceville), guard Tashawn Manning (Auburn) and cornerback Christian Matthew (Samford).

A player signed to a reserve/future contract can be added to an NFL team’s roster when it expands from 53 to 90 players for the offseason on the first day of the NFL’s 2023 business year on March 13. The newly signed players become eligible to participate in offseason workouts, minicamps and OTAs as team members.

Only players who aren’t on NFL active rosters can sign reserve/future contracts.

Doss and Manning joined Baltimore as undrafted rookies in the offseason and signed with the practice squad after being released in August in the cutdown from the 90-player preseason roster to the 53-player regular-season roster.

Doss came from Southern Miss, and Manning came from Kentucky, where he played in 2022 after five seasons at Auburn.

Neither Doss nor Manning played in a regular-season game as rookies.

Matthew didn’t join Baltimore’s practice squad until Jan. 16 after the Chicago Bears’ season ended. Matthew started his second NFL season with 83 special-teams plays in four games with the Arizona Cardinals, who chose him in the seventh round of the 2022 NFL Draft.

The Bears signed Matthew for their practice squad two days after he’d been waived by the Cardinals on Oct. 2. He got 14 more special-teams plays in two games with Chicago as a practice-squad elevation before the end of the regular season. With his contract up at season’s end, Matthew extended his season by joining the Ravens.

Twenty-seven players from Alabama high schools and colleges have signed reserve/future contracts since the end of the 2023 NFL regular season. The other players include:

· Offensive lineman Chandler Brewer (Florence), Jacksonville Jaguars

· Running back Spencer Brown (Mortimer Jordan, UAB), Carolina Panthers

· Safety Shyheim Carter (Alabama), Tennessee Titans

· Defensive end DJ Coleman (Jacksonville State), Jacksonville Jaguars

· Wide receiver Grant DuBose (Park Crossing, Miles), Green Bay Packers

· Offensive lineman D.J. Fluker (Foley, Alabama), Las Vegas Raiders

· Tight end Miller Forristall (Alabama), Los Angeles Rams

· Cornerback Allan George (Andalusia), Cincinnati Bengals

· Cornerback Zyon Gilbert (Jeff Davis), Green Bay Packers

· Cornerback Tae Hayes (Decatur), New York Jets

· Cornerback Keenan Isaac (Midfield, Alabama State), Tampa Bay Buccaneers

· Wide receiver Shedrick Jackson (Hoover, Auburn), Cincinnati Bengals

· Wide receiver Cephus Johnson III (Davidson, South Alabama), Tampa Bay Buccaneers

· Outside linebacker Terrell Lewis (Alabama), Philadelphia Eagles

· Tight end Jordan Matthews (Madison Academy), Carolina Panthers

· Wide receiver Anthony Schwartz (Auburn), Miami Dolphins

· Tight end John Samuel Shenker (Auburn), Las Vegas Raiders

· Offensive lineman Lachavious Simmons (Selma), Tennessee Titans

· Wide receiver Cam Sims (Alabama), Carolina Panthers

· Outside linebacker Jordan Smith (UAB), Kansas City Chiefs

· Guard Logan Stenberg (James Clemens), Tampa Bay Buccaneers

· Offensive tackle Kadeem Telfort (UAB), Green Bay Packers

· Wide receiver Austin Watkins (UAB), Philadelphia Eagles

· Center Darryl Williams (Bessemer City), Jacksonville Jaguars

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Mark Inabinett is a sports reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter at @AMarkG1.