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Ravens Injury Report Reveals Lamar Jackson's Status
Lamar Jackson practices fully after ankle injury, clearing injury report for Friday.
In brief
Lamar Jackson practices fully after ankle injury, clearing injury report for Friday. Lamar Jackson will have no injury designation on Friday's report after practicing fully for the first time since October 4. Originally reported by Baltimore Ravens On SI.
Ravens Handle Jackson Injury Cautiously
The Ravens have been coy in their handling of Lamar Jackson’s ankle injury for a month now.
Jackson's Injury Impact
Since the two-time MVP suffered the injury on a sack from behind at the end of the first half in Week 4, Baltimore’s offense has fallen onto a major funk.
Coach Minter's Messaging Strain
Rookie head coach Jesse Minter has walked a verbal minefield about conveying some semblance of the extent of the injury to his paying customers, through the media, but also needing to respect the player’s reputation…
Ravens PR Challenges
Ravens public relations has a poor reputation in such matters, throwing a novice head coach into the mix has only exacerbated the messaging issues.
Jackson Practices Fully
Turns out Jackson practiced in full on Wednesday, the first time he did so since before facing the Titans on Oct. 4, and he did the same on Thursday.
Jackson's Injury Designation
Should Jackson practice fully on Friday, it’s a limited workday and barring some totally unforeseen circumstance that will be the case, it’s fair to expect he will have no injury designation on Friday’s injury report.
Jackson's Injury History
He was ruled out on Friday on each of the first two weeks after his injury, which Jackson has described as a "very, very painful" high-ankle sprain.
Jackson's Injury Status Changes
Last week he was listed as questionable and then the team announced on Saturday afternoon that he had been downgraded to out.
Offensive Coordinator Challenges
While Ravens rookie offensive coordinator Declan Doyle was being hailed as a "genius" all summer, he is only seven games into calling plays and is trying to adjust his processes with one of the worst…
Jackson's Impact on Offense
Jackson is the genius, he covers up the warts on a roster that is 7-14 without him, while wins 70% of the regular-season games he starts.
Run Game Challenges
How much Doyle is willing to lean into Jackson’s legs to boost a moribund run game will be telling; he’s already riding Derrick Henry at an historic rate for any age 32 RB in NFL…
Jackson's Explosive Plays
The ability to generate explosive plays will be back, Jackson leads the NFL at 10.1 yards/attempts (no one else is above 8.
Ravens' Performance Without Jackson
Henry has averaged just 3.4 yards per rush the last four weeks (35th in the NFL). Getting rookie "Joker" Adam Randall (a hybrid RB/TE/H-Back/WR) off Injured Reserve could add wrinkled for Doyle, too.
Ravens' Second-Half Struggles
Something has to change in a major way for Baltimore in the second half and this young staff better figure it out quickly.
Jackson's Contract Status
Also consider how it came to pass again that Ravens struggling general manager Eric DeCosta let Jackson enter a potential walk season without a contract extension after the QB had to dangle on a non-exclusive…
The main idea
Lamar Jackson will have no injury designation on Friday's report after practicing fully for the first time since October 4.
