The Ravens are traveling to Pittsburgh to play the Steelers for a playoff berth and the AFC North crown, and one question is on the entire NFL\u2019s mind:<\/p>\n
Jackson is dealing with a back contusion suffered in the Ravens\u2019 Week 16 loss to the Patriots. He did not practice last week or play against the Packers on Saturday night. Backup Tyler Huntley confidently commanded the Ravens offense \u2013 which primarily involved handing the ball off to Derrick Henry and watch the carnage \u2013 to a 41-24 victory.<\/p>\n
Ravens head coach John Harbaugh emphasized the severity of Jackson\u2019s injury last week and continued to do so when updating his status on Monday.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s to be determined. He\u2019s coming off a very serious injury,\u201d Harbaugh said. \u201cI think we\u2019ll know a lot more on Wednesday.\u201d He added that Jackson\u2019s condition improved throughout last week, giving the team some \u201ccause for optimism.\u201d<\/p>\n
Huntley\u2019s success \u2013 plus his victory over the Bears in Week 8 \u2013 has stirred talk that the Ravens should start him in Week 18 regardless of Jackson\u2019s health. But John Harbaugh stated the obvious on Monday: the two-time MVP will start if he can play.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf Lamar\u2019s ready to go, he\u2019s playing. That\u2019s it. For sure.\u201d said Harbaugh.<\/p>\n
All eyes will be on the Ravens\u2019 first practice of Week 18 on Wednesday. Jackson\u2019s absence would be a bad sign for his availability against the Steelers on Sunday night<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ravens are traveling to Pittsburgh to play the Steelers for a playoff berth and the AFC North…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":640127,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2052],"tags":[184,117,16715,849,2282,7,6,169],"class_list":{"0":"post-640126","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-baltimore-ravens-injuries","11":"tag-baltimore-ravens-news","12":"tag-baltimoreravens","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-ravens"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115808042033605480","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640126","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=640126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/640127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}