{"id":243848,"date":"2025-07-28T22:55:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T22:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/243848\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T22:55:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T22:55:09","slug":"faster-zay-flowers-expects-to-catch-more-deep-balls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/243848\/","title":{"rendered":"Faster Zay Flowers Expects to Catch More Deep Balls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The results have shown in training camp, with Flowers separating from defensive backs and making nifty moves after the catch. He took Lamar Jackson&#8217;s first pass of training camp for a long touchdown after exploding past Ravens defensive backs.<\/p>\n<p>Flowers reached a top speed of 21.38 mph last season, according to Next Gen Stats. It might be hard to imagine a faster Flowers, but he believes his speed has increased, which will make him harder to defend.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It (the injury) definitely motivated me to get back on the field, push my rehab and therapy,&#8221; Flowers said. &#8220;I feel better than before. I feel like I got faster, I got stronger. I feel better than before I got hurt. A lot of people said I got faster, more explosive.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Flowers&#8217; ability to run routes effectively as both an outside and slot receiver makes him a matchup nightmare for opponents. He&#8217;s hoping to use his versatility to create favorable matchups that lead to more deep ball connections with Jackson.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think we&#8217;re going to hit a lot more,&#8221; Flowers said. &#8220;Way more than we did last year. We&#8217;ve been working on it, too.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The results have shown in training camp, with Flowers separating from defensive backs and making nifty moves after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2052],"tags":[23699,44577,184,117,2282,783,7,781,891,20472,6360,6,169,8896,4648],"class_list":{"0":"post-243848","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-baltimore-ravens","8":"tag-2025-training-camp","9":"tag-2025-training-camp-news","10":"tag-baltimore","11":"tag-baltimore-ravens","12":"tag-baltimoreravens","13":"tag-clifton-brown","14":"tag-football","15":"tag-general","16":"tag-homepage-latest-headlines","17":"tag-inline-news","18":"tag-news-notes","19":"tag-nfl","20":"tag-ravens","21":"tag-training-camp","22":"tag-zay-flowers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114933329106194446","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243848","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=243848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}