{"id":403324,"date":"2025-09-28T09:51:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T09:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/403324\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T09:51:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T09:51:12","slug":"ravens-place-pro-bowl-dt-nnamdi-madubuike-neck-on-injured-reserve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/403324\/","title":{"rendered":"Ravens place Pro Bowl DT Nnamdi Madubuike (neck) on injured reserve"},"content":{"rendered":"

Madubuike missed the Ravens’ Week 3 loss<\/a> to the Detroit Lions and just two days later, head coach John Harbaugh announced the DT would be out for the team’s Week 4 matchup<\/a> with the Kansas City Chiefs. Most worrisome was that Harbaugh added he was concerned and hadn’t been given the green light to divulge if Madubuike was dealing with a long-term injury.<\/p>\n

Now, a red light has been given for at least the next month for one of the NFL’s top interior defensive linemen.<\/p>\n

A 2020 NFL Draft third-round pick of the Ravens, Madubuike became a regular starter in 2021 and in 2023 truly broke out with a 13-sack, Pro Bowl campaign. He went to his second straight Pro Bowl in 2024 and started this season with a sack in each of Baltimore’s first two games before he was injured.<\/p>\n

For the Ravens, it’s a massive blow to a team that was a preseason Super Bowl favorite and is 1-2 following a loss to the Lions in which they gave up 224 rushing yards sans Madubuike.<\/p>\n

Veteran John Jenkins<\/a> and rookie Aeneas Peebles<\/a> will be looked on to fill in for Madubuike — and DLs C.J. Okoye<\/a> and Josh Tupou<\/a> were elevated from the practice squad as reinforcements against the Chiefs — but there’s really no replacing a player of his ilk on the Ravens’ defensive front.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Madubuike missed the Ravens’ Week 3 loss to the Detroit Lions and just two days later, head coach…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403325,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1227,117,7,11465,88,6,15,609,10944],"class_list":{"0":"post-403324","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl-draft","8":"tag-around-the-nfl","9":"tag-baltimore-ravens","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-justin-madubuike","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-nfl-draft","15":"tag-no-minute","16":"tag-regular-season"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115281309408092835","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403324","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=403324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}