If Lamar Jackson were 45-year-old Tom Brady or a 38-year-old Aaron Rodgers, Wednesday might have come and gone as a product of wisdom, patience and arm maintenance. Instead, when the 25-year-old Baltimore Ravens quarterback showed up wearing a black full-length compression sleeve on his throwing arm and didn’t attempt a pass in Wednesday’s practice, it elicited the kind of response you’d expected.
Raised eyebrows, questions and some wonderment about what exactly the problem is.
“Just a normal, course-of-the-season type thing,” Ravens coach John Harbaugh told reporters. “He practiced today so, he’ll play on Sunday.