Lamar Jackson was not on the Ravens’ injury report Monday. He will be on it Tuesday.
The quarterback missed the team’s only practice of the week before Thursday Night Football.
Coach John Harbaugh would not say why Jackson didn’t practice, but he did say Jackson will play against the Bengals.
The team is required to release an injury report later today.
After Jackson missed last Wednesday’s practice, Harbaugh told beat reporters that the reigning MVP was taking a rest day. The practice report revealed Jackson missed practice with back and knee injuries.
Jackson also missed Thursday’s practice last week before practicing Friday and playing Sunday. He had a maximum passer rating by completing 16 of 19 passes for 280 yards and three touchdowns in the 41-10 blowout of the Broncos.
Joe Burrow said a week ago it wasn’t his job to make a trade for help, but after the team made a rare in-season trade, the Bengals quarterback sounded pleased.
Only twice in the past 52 years had the Bengals made a trade, so it seemed unlikely they would make one this year. But they gave up a 2025 seventh-round pick to get Bears running back Khalil Herbert on Tuesday.
Something is better than nothing.
“It’s something that we needed, I think,” Burrow said, via video from Yanni Tragellis of Local12. “I’m glad that we went out and tried to get better. I’ve watched Khalil in the past, and I think he will help us.”
The Bengals needed help at the position after they placed running back Zack Moss on injured reserve with a neck injury.
Herbert has only eight carries for 16 yards and a touchdown this season and was a healthy scratch the past two games for Chicago.
In the only other trades the Bengals have made since the NFL-AFL merger, they acquired wide receiver Charlie Joiner and linebacker Ron Pritchard in exchange for running backs Paul Robinson and Fred Willis in 1971 and sent Carlos Dunlap to Seattle in 2020 for a seventh-round pick and offensive guard BJ Finney.
There was a lot of talk about Bengals rookie wide receiver Jermaine Burton taking on an increased role heading into last Sunday’s game against the Raiders, but Burton wound up being a healthy scratch.
Reports indicated Burton missed the team’s Saturday walkthrough and was benched as a result. Head coach Zac Taylor didn’t confirm that, but did say after the 41-24 win that Burton has to learn how to conduct himself in a more professional way.
On Tuesday, Burton also declined to detail what happened before the game. He did say he “for sure” feels he let his teammates down, however.
“Just got to be better,” Burton said, via Charlie Goldsmith of the Cincinnati Enquirer.
Taylor said he expects Burton to play against the Ravens on Thursday and the team will have use for him if Tee Higgins remains out with a quad injury.
The Bengals officially announced their trade for running back Khalil Herbert on Tuesday afternoon and they announced a couple of other roster moves as well.
Tight end Erick All and running back Zack Moss have been placed on injured reserve. All will miss the rest of the season with a torn ACL and Moss is expected to miss extended time with a neck injury.
All was a fourth-round pick this year and he caught 20 passes for 158 yards before being injured. Mike Gesicki, Drew Sample, Tanner Hudson, and Tanner McLachlan are the remaining tight ends for Cincinnati.
Moss’s injury led to the trade of a seventh-round pick for Herbert. Moss had 74 carries for 242 yards and two touchdowns in eight games.
Running back Khalil Herbert is on to Cincinnati.
Tom Pelissero of NFL Media reports that the Bengals have agreed to a trade with the Bears that will add Herbert to their backfield for the rest of the season. A 2025 seventh-round pick will go back to the Bears as compensation.
Herbert bolsters the Bengals backfield in the wake of Zack Moss’s neck injury. Moss missed Sunday’s win over the Raiders and head coach Zac Taylor said he is out indefinitely, which left the team thin behind Chase Brown.
Herbert has only run eight times for 16 yards this season, but had 364 carries for 1,775 yards and eight touchdowns over his first three seasons in Chicago.
