Although his contract expires at the end of the month, Ravens outside linebacker Terrell Suggs says he knows he’ll get the franchise tag, and that he has no plans to leave Baltimore.

Suggs tells Mike Preston of the Baltimore Sun that Ravens General Manager Ozzie Newsome told him he’ll get the franchise tag today, and that he’s OK with that as long as it leads to a long-term extension with the team.

“I talked to Ozzie earlier today, and he said they would put the tag on me,” Suggs said Monday. “I’m disappointed because I really wanted a long-term deal, and I think I earned it. But this also keeps me in a Ravens uniform, and this is just another way of eventually getting it done.”

The 25-year-old Suggs could either sign the franchise tender and play with a one-year, $8.065 million contract, or, more likely, continue to negotiate toward a long-term extension that would make him one of the highest-paid defensive players in the league.

Suggs said of the six-year, $72 million contract defensive end Dwight Freeney signed with the Colts last year, “I wanted to be somewhere around there. We went in thinking that I can do more than Dwight can do. He can’t drop into pass coverage like I can. He can’t play the run as well as I do, either.”

Asked if he would hold out of training camp if he doesn’t get that kind of money, Suggs told Preston, “At this point, I don’t know.”