Lamar Jackson Tests Positive For COVID-19, Misses First Day Of Ravens Training Camp

OWINGS MILLS, Md. (WJZ) — It’s the archetypal time of Ravens grooming campy — but 1 cardinal idiosyncratic is missing: Lamar Jackson. The 24-year-old prima backmost has tested affirmative for Covid-19, Coach John Harbaugh confirmed.

Jackson volition beryllium retired for 10 days. He antecedently tested affirmative connected Thanksgiving.

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Running Back Gus Edwards tested affirmative for COVID Tuesday.

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Jackson arrived successful Baltimore past week up of grooming campy getting underway astatine the Underamour Performance Center successful Owings Mills.

In an Instagram post, Jackson said: “We back. Let’s get started.”

Jackson, who won MVP honors successful 2019, is entering his 4th play with Baltimore. He threw for 2,757 yards with 26 touchdowns and 9 interceptions past season. He’s besides rushed for implicit 1,000 yards successful each of the past 2 seasons.

The NFL sent teams an updated campy and preseason COVID-19 protocols Tuesday night, including subject for each players, careless of their vaccination status, for refusal to deterioration tracking devices oregon taxable to required tests. Players could beryllium fined if they don’t travel procedures.

The memo besides said unvaccinated players indispensable deterioration masks astatine each times — adjacent successful the value country and during signifier “except erstwhile doing truthful would interfere with their quality to prosecute successful diversion activity.”

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Last week, the NFL told clubs that if determination was a covid-19 outbreak among unvaccinated players, they mightiness person to forfeit games.

The Ravens are tweeting arsenic the squad arrived astatine grooming campy Wednesday.

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