Ravens QB Lamar Jackson misses Wednesday's practice with new injury

Brian Wacker, The Baltimore Sun on Nov 19, 2025

Published in Football

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BALTIMORE — Another week, another absence for Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson.

For the second straight Wednesday, Jackson was missing from practice in Owings Mills. This time, he has a new injury, though, and was listed with an ankle injury on the first injury report of the week.

Whether he would be back Thursday or available for Sunday’s game against the New York Jets, coach John Harbaugh wouldn’t say.

When asked if it was a similar situation to last week, when knee soreness kept Jackson out of one practice before he returned the following day, Harbaugh said only, “Yeah, same type of situation.”

“It’s a physical nature of the sport,” he said. “Some guys don’t practice on Wednesday. We try to get everybody available for Sunday that we can, and I will see as the week goes on who becomes available.

“I know it’s Lamar, it’s our quarterback, I understand how important it is. It wasn’t [in] his best interest to practice today, and we’ll see where we’re at tomorrow.”

Whenever Jackson returns, one thing that’s not in doubt is that he took some significant hits in each of the past two games against the Minnesota Vikings and Cleveland Browns.

In a win over the Vikings in Minnesota, edge rusher Dallas Turner laid a big hit on Jackson during the second quarter. In Sunday’s win in Cleveland, Jackson was sacked five times, with four of them courtesy of All-Pro edge rusher and NFL sack leader Myles Garrett.

After the game, as Jackson sat and waited to speak to reporters, a blood stain soaked through the white tights under his uniform pants at his knee. He also stood up slowly, though he did not appear to have any obvious or serious injuries.

But whether the injury puts his status for Sunday in jeopardy remains to be seen.

Last week, Jackson returned to practice on Thursday and Friday. Two days later, he had his worst game of the season against Cleveland’s second-ranked defense, completing just 14 of 25 passes for 193 yards with no touchdowns and two interceptions for a passer rating of 47.6, one of the lowest marks of his career.

Baltimore won, 23-16, but the contest clearly took its toll on the two-time NFL Most Valuable Player, who has dealt with a fair share of physical ailments after not missing a game in either of the past two seasons because of injury.

Already, Jackson has missed three games this season because of a hamstring injury he suffered in the third quarter of a Week 4 loss to the Kansas City Chiefs. The Ravens then lost two straight with Cooper Rush starting in his place before Tyler Huntley got the start against the Chicago Bears in Week 7 and helped guide the Ravens to victory.

Jackson returned the following week for a Thursday night game against the Miami Dolphins at Hard Rock Stadium and threw four touchdowns and had a near-perfect passer rating in a comfortable 28-6 win. But the following week against the Vikings, he again struggled, completing 17 of 29 passes for 176 yards and one touchdown.

He has also not been the same dynamic runner this season that he has been in past years, with just 39 attempts for 226 yards and one touchdown.

That’s a dramatic drop-off from last season, when he had 139 carries and led all quarterbacks with 915 yards rushing to go with four scores. His 32.3 rushing yards per game this year are also the fewest of his eight-year career.

On Monday, Harbaugh scoffed at questions over Jackson running less frequently by design or by his own accord, though.

“I was happy with some of the runs [Sunday],” he said. “He got out of the pocket a few times when we really needed him to and got us some yards and saved us a couple of times. I thought he also — I give him a lot of credit — he was under duress a few times where, in that kind of a game, he made some decisions, too, to protect the football, which was big. So, I thought he played a really smart game that way.”

Asked in a follow-up question about Jackson running less this year, Harbaugh said he didn’t “have an answer for that.”

“Next thing you know, Lamar will break out and run for 100 yards,” he continued.

Jackson’s season-high rushing this season, however, was 70 yards on six carries in a Week 1 loss to the Buffalo Bills. Since then, he has topped 36 yards just once and on three occasions has been held to 14 yards or less.

Still, the Ravens have won four straight games to get back to .500 and are a game back of the AFC North-leading Pittsburgh Steelers.

To keep that streak going, they’ll need to beat the 2-8 Jets before a quick turnaround against the division rival Cincinnati Bengals four days later on Thanksgiving night in Baltimore. With quarterback Joe Burrow potentially back for the Bengals for that game, the Ravens will obviously want to make sure they have their own superstar quarterback available, too.