Lamar Jackson is out for the rest of Sunday's game against the Bills with a right thumb injury. ESPN reported that he was ruled out, and NFL Trade Rumors said he went straight to the locker room after getting hurt on the first play. Pro Football Talk first listed him as questionable to return. Baltimore Beatdown's update says the Ravens then announced he was out.
The sources describe the injury differently. ESPN, PFT, Baltimore Beatdown and NFL Trade Rumors all say right thumb. SB Nation wrote that Jackson injured his hand and said it was unclear from the video exactly what happened. A r/nfl highlight post called it a hand or wrist injury. Yahoo's headline puts the injury on Baltimore's first offensive play, but its summary line says Buffalo's first offensive play. The other outlets say the first play or the opening play. Our box score has Jackson at 0-of-1 passing, which fits one snap.
The injury is a second one in a row. Yahoo noted that Jackson was returning after missing three games with an ankle injury, and NFL Trade Rumors described this as a separate injury. He has played four games this season, and the numbers show what Baltimore is missing. He has 68 completions on 96 attempts (70.8%) for 967 yards, 6 touchdowns and 1 interception, a 119.6 rating. He has also run 19 times for 144 yards and a score.
Tyler Huntley has taken over. Baltimore Beatdown said it is his fifth straight game of appearing for the Ravens. It said he closed out the Week 4 win over the Titans and went 1-2 in his three starts. Through the first quarter and early second, Huntley is 2-of-4 for no yards and has been sacked once for 18 yards. He also lost a fumble. Baltimore has 7 total yards on 11 plays, and Derrick Henry's 1-yard rushing touchdown accounts for its points.
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The Ravens came in 4-3 and fourth in the AFC North, with two straight losses: 13-10 at Cleveland on Oct. 18 and 35-13 against Cincinnati on Oct. 25. Buffalo is 5-1 and leads the AFC East. A season that already looks fragile now depends on a quarterback with a ankle injury behind him and a new thumb injury.
No outlet has given a timeline, and the reporting doesn't say whether Jackson will have imaging or miss more time. Baltimore's next game is Thursday, Nov. 5, at home against Jacksonville. That is a short week, and Jackson's status for it is the question to watch.
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