For seven seasons, the Lamar Jackson to Mark Andrews connection has been a prolific part of the Ravens’ offense, and it was clicking like clockwork during Wednesday’s OTA practice.<\/p>\n
In the first session open to the media since Baltimore’s heartbreaking playoff loss to the Buffalo Bills in January, Jackson’s first pass of the 2025 offseason was a completion over the middle to Andrews.<\/p>\n
It was more evidence that last season is over, and that Andrews has put his fourth quarter fumble and two-point conversion drop during the playoff loss behind him.<\/p>\n
Has it been easy? No. But Andrews, the Ravens’ all-time leader in touchdown catches, is too good and too hellbent on winning a Super Bowl to let one nightmare spoil his dreams.<\/p>\n
“It’s tough,” Andrews said, in his first press conference since the playoff loss. “This is my life. I put a lot of work into this. Everything I do is focused on that. Everything I think about is focused on that. It wasn’t the way that I planned it, but that’s all part of the story.<\/p>\n
“I’ve been using it. I’ve had an incredible offseason. I’m excited to show what I can continue to do, continue to prove myself and step up in big moments. That’s the thing about sports. It doesn’t always fall your way. It’s how you bounce back.”<\/p>\n
Andrews leaned on his family back in Scottsdale, Az. for support, a strong unit that includes his girlfriend, parents, two brothers, a sister, and their children. His mother, Martha, believes family love was exactly what Andrews needed, and they were happy to provide it.<\/p>\n
“He spent a lot of time with us and was totally emersed in that,” Martha said in a telephone interview. “Not discussing what happened was probably our best option, right? Not that we weren’t allowed to talk about it, but it wasn’t necessary to dwell on it. Mark is an extremely strong individual. He always has been. There’s never been any doubt in my mind he’d get past it.<\/p>\n
“He’s itching to get started. He loves his teammates, loves being with them, loves football. When Mark walks through those doors in Baltimore, it’s like being home.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For seven seasons, the Lamar Jackson to Mark Andrews connection has been a prolific part of the Ravens’…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86515,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2052],"tags":[184,117,2282,783,7,781,891,20472,759,6,782,169],"class_list":{"0":"post-86514","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-clifton-brown","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-general","14":"tag-homepage-latest-headlines","15":"tag-inline-news","16":"tag-mark-andrews","17":"tag-nfl","18":"tag-offseason","19":"tag-ravens"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114588050071503732","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86514","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=86514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}