Ravens Add Alternate Helmet to Alternate Uniform

 By John Turney

They are back.

From 2016 to 2019 the Baltimore Ravens wore an all-purple "color rush" alternate uniform that featured purple jerseys with gold numbers with white trim. The pants are purple with gold and white stripes.

We quite liked them—

Today the Ravens brought them back, but with a difference. This time they will have a matching purple helmet. 

As a stand along the helmet looks really good—

We're not a huge fan of the forward-facing Ravens logo but -- okay. It's a good helmet with contrasting and complimentary colors.

The question is this: Is it too much purple? 

Here is the entire kit—

Well, maybe. But maybe not. The gold complements (with white trim) break up the purple enough to not make it a monochrome look. It's not a purple block of color, in our view and that is a good thing.

Before the black lid contrasted the purple nicley and we think contrast is a highly underrated design element but it is not mandatory, either. And this seems to work.

Here are a few more shots released by the Ravens—

So, overall, it's good. For some reason, they pop. So the grade? We'll give them a B+ to maybe even an A- ... somewhere in there.