The Ravens are hoping for the best for cornerback Nate Wiggins.
Wiggins had to be carted off the field at Thursday’s practice. Reports from the practice field say Wiggins couldn’t put weight on his left leg after his feet got tangled with wide receiver Ja’Kobi Lane during a drill.
After practice, head coach Jesse Minter said there is optimism that Wiggins avoided a major injury but that things are still being evaluated.
“Don’t have a ton of information on that yet. We’ll kinda get it looked at, see where it’s at,” Minter said.
Wiggins started every game for the Ravens last season and finished the year with 76 tackles, three interceptions and 14 passes defensed.
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Wide receiver Zay Flowers made a quick return to Ravens practice.
Flowers suffered a quad contusion last Saturday and was called day-to-day by head coach Jesse Minter after he left the workout. Reporters at Tuesday’s practice shared that Flowers is back on the field with the team.
The Ravens also got defensive lineman Travis Jones back from a considerably longer absence. Jones, who has been dealing with a pectoral injury, was activated from the physically unable to perform list on Tuesday.
Jones had 47 tackles, nine tackles for loss and five sacks for the Ravens during the 2025 season. He signed a three-year extension with the team last December.
Ravens head coach Jesse Minter gave an update on wide receiver Zay Flowers after Flowers left Saturday’s practice early.
Minter said, via multiple reporters, that Flowers suffered a quad contusion when he collided with defensive back Jaylinn Hawkins during the workout. Minter called Flowers day-to-day and said that he does not expect the wideout to miss a significant amount of time.
The injury added to an eventful week for Flowers. He signed a four-year, $140 million extension with the team on Wednesday.
The Ravens will have another padded practice on Sunday and they will host the Eagles in their first preseason game next Saturday.
Ravens running back Derrick Henry isn’t even thinking about retiring, which means he’s going to add to an already impressive list of career achievements. Up next is moving up the all-time rushing touchdown ranks.
Henry’s next rushing touchdown will be the 123rd of his career, which will tie Marcus Allen for the third-most in NFL history. At that point, only Emmitt Smith (164) and LaDainian Tomlinson (145) will have more career rushing touchdowns than Henry.
If Henry runs for at least 1,500 yards this season, he’ll be the only running back in NFL history with six 1,500-yard seasons in his career. Currently, Henry and Barry Sanders are the only running backs with five 1,500-yard seasons.
Henry has 13,018 rushing yards in his career, which is the 10th-most in NFL history. If he has one of his typical seasons, he’ll move up to sixth all-time, ahead of Eric Dickerson (13,259), Jerome Bettis (13,662), LaDainian Tomlinson (13,684) and Curtis Martin (14,101).
The Ravens will close out the week by adding a linebacker.
Jeff Zrebiec of TheAthletic.com reports that they are going to sign Jamon Johnson to their active roster. Johnson tried out for the team on Thursday.
Johnson signed with the Packers after going undrafted last year. He had 10 tackles and a pass defensed in two appearances. The Packers released Johnson during their offseason program.
Ravens linebacker Teddye Buccanan remains on the physically unable to perform list and Zrebiec notes that Carl Jones has also missed practice time recently, so the Ravens were in need of a healthy body at linebacker as they head toward their first preseason game.
Earlier this week, the Ravens and receiver Zay Flowers agreed to terms on a new deal that, by way of new money, put him in the Justin Jefferson tax bracket at $35 million annually.
The full details of the Flowers contract are now available.
Here they are, per a source with knowledge of the terms:
1. Signing bonus: $24.855 million, $18.855 million of which will be paid within 10 days, and the remaining $6 million of which will be paid by October 31, 2026.
2. 2026 base salary: $1.145 million, fully guaranteed.
3. 2027 option bonus: $26.74 million, fully guaranteed; $20 million will be paid my March 31, 2027, and the remaining $6.74 million will be paid by October 31, 2027.
4. 2027 base salary: $1.26 million, fully guaranteed.
5. 2028 base salary: $26.5 million, guaranteed for injury and fully guaranteed in March 2027.
6. 2029 base salary: $27.5 million, guaranteed for injury and fully guaranteed in March 2028.
10. 2030 offseason roster bonus: $2 million.
11. 2030 base salary: $28 million.
12. 2031 offseason roster bonus: $2 million.
13. 2031 base salary: $29.962 million.
The four-year extension has a new-money average of $35 million. Factoring in the existing money owed in 2026 and 2027, the full six-year deal has an average value of $28.327 million at signing.
The deal includes $54 million fully guaranteed at signing, $80.5 million fully guaranteed by March 2027, and $108 million fully guaranteed by March 2028.
At 32, Derrick Henry is the NFL’s oldest starting running back. But he’s not even thinking about retiring.
Henry made that clear in a social media post after seeing a post that quoted him as saying he wants to retire as a Raven. Henry responded by saying that while he would love to play with the Ravens for the rest of his career, he never said anything about retiring with the Ravens or anyone else, because retiring isn’t on his mind.
“I would like to finish my playing career with Ravens . I never said anything about retiring lol, I’m enjoying being a Raven. I’ll worry about that retirement sh* later,” Henry wrote.
Despite his advancing age, Henry is still playing at a high level. Last year he started all 17 games and carried 307 times for 1,595 yards, an average of 5.2 yards per carry, and scored 16 touchdowns. All of those numbers are better than his career averages. In Henry’s mind, retirement is a long way off.
Zay Flowers landed a big new contract in Baltimore this week, but he’s not the only wideout that the Ravens are excited about for the 2026 season.
Third-round pick Ja’Kobi Lane is off to a strong start at training camp and his playing style reminds offensive coordinator Declan Doyle of someone he worked with earlier in his career. Doyle was a Saints offensive assistant from 2019-2022 and Michael Thomas was in New Orleans at that time.
On Wednesday, Doyle invoked Thomas’s name while discussing Lane’s play this summer.
“He’s got this huge catch radius. He’s got great hands. He’s very sticky,” Doyle said, via the team’s website. “Mike Thomas had these strong hands where he could pull it down, in a way, if you threw it in the vicinity, you felt like he was going to go get it. He’s a very friendly guy to throw to.”
Thomas kicked off his career with a 92-catch season for the Saints in 2016. With Flowers, Rashod Bateman and others on hand in Baltimore, Lane may not approach that kind of volume but continuing to look like Thomas into the regular season should serve him well as he kicks off his NFL career.
Wide receiver Zay Flowers agreed to a four-year, $140 million contract extension on Tuesday, but quarterback Lamar Jackson has not been able to reach common ground with the team on one of his own.
Jackson has two years left on his current deal, but is set to have a cap number north of $84 million next season and that’s made the prospect of an extension a popular talking point around Baltimore. Flowers didn’t wade into any discussion about numbers or where things stand at a Wednesday press conference, but he did make it clear that he’s hoping to see Jackson remain in town for many years to come.
“I would love for him to be my quarterback until I am done playing,” Flowers said, via the team’s website. “No matter whether it is 12 years or 13, it does not matter how long; I want him to be my quarterback, because to me, he is the best in the world.”
Jackson declined to discuss contract matters at the start of training camp and it’s unclear how close the two sides might be to a deal that would get Flowers closer to his goal of being a one-quarterback receiver for his entire career.
When the Ravens rewarded receiver Zay Flowers with a new deal that carries a new-money average of $35 million per year, plenty of other receivers surely took notice.
The most obvious raised eyebrows belong to Rams receiver Puka Nacua and Cowboys receiver George Pickens. Nacua, who’s making $5.767 million in the final year of his rookie contract, has other issues that are complicating a long-term deal. Still, with each new big-money receiver deal that’s done, the absence of one for Nacua becomes more glaring.
With Pickens, the real question is whether the Cowboys will tag him again next year. At $27.298 million for 2026, the Cowboys could hold Pickens in place for $32.75 million in 2027 — still well below the top of the market. Surely, Jerry Jones will be inclined to do that.
But it’s not just the guys who haven’t gotten paid who will take notice of the Flowers deal. Vikings receiver Justin Jefferson, like Flowers, is at $35 million per year. All due respect to Flowers, he’s not Justin Jefferson.
Eventually, Bengals receiver Ja’Marr Chase will start to wonder whether he’s fairly paid at $40 million. Especially as more players who aren’t Ja’Marr Chase approach and pass his APY.
So, yes, the Flowers deal will make waves. The Drake London deal will make waves. Eventually, it will fuel a wave of contracts for other receivers who’ll see those deals and get ideas of their own that, given the market and the ever-increasing salary cap, are more than fair to have.
