Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson's absence from the field continued at Thursday's practice and he offered an update on where things stand a little later in the day.
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Jackson released his own injury report and put himself out of the game.
If you think about it, why would Jackson risk further injury or playing hurt when his contract is set to expire at the end of the season. This is what happens when you let your QB get into a contract year. I can't wish enough bad things to happen to the Ravens, plague, locusts, basically anything from the Old Testament, I wished heaped upon that scum team. But I can see how Jackson (who represents himself (no agent), is not going to risk millions of dollars by playing hurt.
Now once the Ratbirds are eliminated, the real intrigue begins. Do they franchise Jackson? Transition tag him? Or let him "test the free agency waters? Jackson has not finished the last two seasons; now he is getting older and is not the size of a Cam Newton or Josh Allen. Sooner or later, he is going to get hurt. If I was an NFL GM, I probably wouldn't touch him with a ten-foot pole.
This contract impasse is also a direct result to the ludicrous contract the Browns gave Watson, Jackson wanted five years guaranteed like Watson got, and the Ratbirds refused. I doubt anyone is going to give him that.