{"id":232441,"date":"2025-07-24T13:41:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T13:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/232441\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T13:41:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T13:41:10","slug":"ravens-qb-lamar-jackson-is-focused-on-daily-improvements-amid-huge-expectations-for-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/232441\/","title":{"rendered":"Ravens&#8217; QB Lamar Jackson is focused on daily improvements amid huge expectations for 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lamar Jackson has won an MVP award in two of his first seven seasons and enters the 2025 slate looking to make a deep playoff run. Baltimore is a Super Bowl favorite and faces huge expectations after a divisional round loss ot the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/buffalo-bills\/324\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Buffalo Bills;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Buffalo Bills<\/a> last January.<\/p>\n<p>On the first day of <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/baltimore-ravens\/366\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Ravens;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Ravens<\/a> training camp practice, the star quarterback was less focused on the looming slate of games and more focused on getting better each day. Asked about his record-setting 2024 season, Jackson stated he&#8217;s &#8220;just getting started&#8221; at the ripe age of 28.<\/p>\n<p>Jackson became the first quarterback in NFL history to post a 4,000-900 season, throwing for 41 touchdowns and almost 4,200 yards while also rushing for 915 yards and four scores.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Jackson had a career low four interceptions in a season where he was at times the best passer in the NFL. The star quarterback has the NFL&#8217;s most physical running back, a dynamic duo at tight end and a trio of wide receivers bolstered by the addition of DeAndre Hopkins. An ever-improving defense added Jaire Alexander on the final day of minicamp, along with two versatile studs with their first two draft picks.<\/p>\n<p>Still, the pressure will continue to mount for Jackson, who&#8217;s just 3-5 in playoff games, with just 13 touchdowns (10 passing, three rushing) and 11 turnovers in those eight games.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Ravens Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/ravenswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/ravens\/2025\/07\/24\/lamar-jackson-says-hes-not-focused-on-huge-expectations-for-ravens\/85354231007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Lamar Jackson says he&#039;s not focused on huge expectations for Ravens;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Lamar Jackson says he&#8217;s not focused on huge expectations for Ravens<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lamar Jackson has won an MVP award in two of his first seven seasons and enters the 2025&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232442,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2052],"tags":[184,117,2282,53,4695,7,5390,895,6,169,17397,47651],"class_list":{"0":"post-232441","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-baltimore-ravens","8":"tag-baltimore","9":"tag-baltimore-ravens","10":"tag-baltimoreravens","11":"tag-buffalo-bills","12":"tag-deandre-hopkins","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-jaire-alexander","15":"tag-lamar-jackson","16":"tag-nfl","17":"tag-ravens","18":"tag-star-quarterback","19":"tag-super-bowl-favorite"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114908501512859080","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}