The Ravens have made a pair of moves at the quarterback position.
Baltimore announced on Wednesday that Skylar Thompson has been placed on injured reserve. As a corresponding transaction, the club has signed Austin Reed.
Thompson did not practice on Sunday or Tuesday with an undisclosed injury. By being placed on injured reserve now, Thompson will not play in 2026 unless he’s let go with an injury settlement.
As for Reed, he started for the UFL’s Dallas Renegades in 2026. He previously spent time with the Bears in 2024 and 2025. Ravens offensive coordinator Declan Doyle served as Chicago’s OC under head coach Ben Johnson last year.
With Lamar Jackson as the team’s starter, Baltimore also has Tyler Huntley and Joe Fagnano on its roster at quarterback.
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Ravens head coach Jesse Minter said there was optimism that cornerback Nate Wiggins avoided a serious injury after Wiggins was carted off at Tuesday’s practice and further testing reportedly supported that feeling.
Wiggins injured his left leg and Ian Rapoport of NFL Media reports that tests showed that Wiggins sustained no structural damage. There’s no word on how much time Wiggins might miss as a result of the injury, but avoiding the worst-case scenarios is a positive outcome.
Wiggins is slated for a starting role in Minter’s defense, so any absence would force the team to shuffle some players around.
Marlon Humphrey, Chidobe Awuzie, T.J. Tampa, Keyon Martin, and fifth-round pick Chandler Rivers are among the other options at corner for Baltimore.
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.
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.
