Lamar Jackson has had a full week of practice for the first time since early November and is ready to go for Sunday’s AFC North title game in Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n
Jackson missed last week’s game due to a back contusion but was able to return this week at full participation. He’ll wear extra padding around his midsection to protect the contusion.<\/p>\n
“We’re excited,” Offensive Coordinator Todd Monken said. “You like having your quarterback out there every day.”<\/p>\n
Wide receiver Rashod Bateman has not practiced all week due the flu, Head Coach John Harbaugh said. Bateman tried to practice some on Friday but couldn’t. He’s questionable to play.<\/p>\n
“I think he did some individual or something early. So, he got moving a little bit,” Harbaugh said. “So, I would think that would clear up by Sunday.”<\/p>\n
Cornerback Marlon Humphrey also caught the illness on Friday, which held him out of practice. Harbaugh said he’d like to think that Humphrey would also be fine by Sunday night.<\/p>\n
Outside linebacker Kyle Van Noy (quad) returned to practice on Friday and will play. After limited practices on Wednesday and Thursday, linebacker Roquan Smith (hamstring) was a full participant Friday and will play.<\/p>\n
Steelers All-Pro pass rusher T.J. Watt said he will play, but it remains to be seen how big a role he can have in his first game back after suffering a partially collapsed lung.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lamar Jackson has had a full week of practice for the first time since early November and is…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":487920,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[216971,216972,834,51,10013,10014,29288,50,131728,14865,52,127363],"class_list":{"0":"post-487919","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-2025-week-18","9":"tag-2025-week-18-news","10":"tag-general","11":"tag-headlines","12":"tag-homepage-latest-headlines","13":"tag-inline-news","14":"tag-lamar-jackson","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-rashod-bateman","17":"tag-ryan-mink","18":"tag-top-stories","19":"tag-wpwn"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115827557411433292","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}