While the Ravens won’t have quarterback Lamar Jackson for Sunday night’s game against the Falcons, they will have their top receiver.
Zay Flowers is active for the Week 5 matchup after he was listed as questionable with a foot injury.
Flowers was limited in practice all week.
The Ravens will also have cornerback Marlon Humphrey, who was listed as questionable with hamstring and calf injuries.
But guard Andrew Vorhees (foot) is inactive.
Tyler Huntley will start at quarterback with Jackson sidelined.
For the Falcons, offensive tackle Jake Matthews (groin), linebacker Divine Deablo (hamstring), and defensive end Samson Ebukam (hamstring) are all active after being listed as questionable.
Jackson, Vorhees, outside linebacker Trey Hendrickson, center Cam Jurgens, receiver Elijah Sarratt, and defensive tackle Aeneas Peebles are inactive for the Ravens.
Defensive end Za’Darius Smith, linebacker Christian Harris, quarterback Cooper Rush, quarterback Jack Strand, offensive lineman Ethan Onianwa, defensive back Malcolm DeWalt IV, and defensive back Robert Longerbeam are inactive for Atlanta. Rush is the emergency third quarterback.
The Browns left Sunday’s loss to the Jets with a number of injuries to monitor heading into Week 6.
According to multiple reports from MetLife Stadium, running back Quinshon Judkins and linebacker Carson Schwesinger were both in walking boots as they made their way out of the locker room for the trip back to Cleveland.
Judkins ran 14 times for 44 yards and caught three passes for six yards in the 17-12 loss. Schwesinger forced a Geno Smith fumble on a sack and had eight tackles overall.
The Browns also saw rookie wide receiver KC Concepcion leave with a head injury in the first quarter.
The Falcons are a different — and better — team in prime-time. That’s due in part to the fact that their great running back performs even greater at night.
Via NBC Sports research, Robinson averages 145.5 yards from scrimmage per game, when the game begins at 7:00 p.m. ET or later.
It’s the highest average for any player since 1970, when primetime football first became a regular occurrence in the NFL, based on a minimum of five prime-time games.
On Monday night against the Saints, Robinson had 147 yards from scrimmage and two touchdowns. In Week 3 on a Thursday night against the Packers, Robinson had 213 yards from scrimmage, and two touchdowns.
On Sunday night, the Falcons and Robins get their third prime-time game in a row, against the Ravens.
The weekly list of NFL-imposed fines for Week 4 includes Titans defensive lineman John Franklin-Myers. On the surface, the $12,537 fine for “striking/kicking/kneeing” seems as perfunctory as any such fine ever does.
The video paints a different picture.
It happened in the second quarter of Sunday’s game between the Titans and the Ravens, on a play that resulted in a three-yard touchdown pass from Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson to tight end Mark Andrews. Although the game broadcast didn’t capture it, the film reveals the full incident. Ravens running back Derrick Henry cut-blocked Franklin-Myers. After the ball was caught in the end zone, and while Henry was on all fours and not looking, Franklin-Myers took a step back and then jammed his knee into Henry’s midsection.
The officials presumably didn’t see it, because no penalty flag was thrown. It was the kind of gratuitous move that could have resulted in an ejection. It’s somewhat surprising it didn’t lead to a suspension.
The end result doesn’t come close to matching the infraction. It’s less than the league fined Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson and Browns running back Quinshon Judkins for a celebration that mimed smoking a joint. And it was nearly half the amount of a fine that was imposed earlier this season, we’re told, on Ravens receiver LaJohntay Wester for — God forbid — displaying an unauthorized logo on his gloves.
Those fines aren’t part of the weekly announcement from the league. Wester was fined $23,882 after the Ravens’ Week 1 game against the Colts for the foreign logo on his gloves.
While the fine schedule is negotiated between the NFL and the NFL Players Association, something is off if a player can deliberately ram a knee into the midsection of an unsuspecting opponent and be fined only $12,537, but having an unauthorized logo on the official gloves costs $23,882.
The NFL’s announced Week 4 fines featured a season-high 10 infractions for player safety fouls that qualify toward a possible suspension.
Ravens linebacker Trenton Simpson was fined $17,911 for a horsecollar tackle.
Browns defensive tackle Adin Huntington ($5,620), Lions linebacker Jack Campbell ($15,930), Jets safety Minkah Fitzpatrick ($17,911), Jets defensive end Darrell Jackson ($6,683) and Seahawks safety Nick Emmanwori ($14,648) were fined for hip-drop tackles.
Cowboys cornerback Reddy Steward ($5,583), Texans cornerback Kamari Lassiter ($13,639) and Rams linebacker Nate Landman ($11,111) were fined for a hit on a defenseless player.
Broncos offensive lineman Ben Powers was docked $17,911 for a blindside block.
Three fines in any one category trigger an automatic one-game suspension. Players can appeal the fines.
