With Lamar Jackson Out Against The Bears, Who Is Tyler Huntley?

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BALTIMORE (WJZ) — With prima backmost Lamar Jackson missing Sunday’s crippled successful Chicago, the Baltimore Ravens are turning to backup Tyler Huntley to pb them against the Bears.

The Ravens announced precocious Sunday greeting that Jackson was inactive owed to an illness, a time aft his presumption was downgraded to questionable.

Jackson practiced Friday aft missing consecutive practices due to the fact that of the unspecified illness.

In Jackson’s absence, Huntley is getting his archetypal NFL commencement against Chicago. Huntley, 23, saw constricted enactment during Baltimore’s Week 6 rout of the Los Angeles Chargers and again the pursuing week during the team’s nonaccomplishment to the Cincinnati Bengals.

Huntley played 12 snaps against the Bengals, according to Pro Football Reference, completing 5 of 11 passes for 39 yards and a 45-percent completion percentage.

Who Is Ty Huntley?

Ravens fans volition apt retrieve Huntley from his late-game quality successful Baltimore’s 17-3 nonaccomplishment to the Buffalo Bills successful past season’s AFC divisional playoffs.

In alleviation of a concussed Jackson, Huntley completed six of 13 attempts for 60 yards portion adding 3 carries for different 32 yards connected the ground.

Baltimore signed Huntley, a erstwhile first-team All-Pac-12 enactment retired of Utah, arsenic a escaped cause pursuing the 2020 NFL Draft.

After consecutive injury-shortened seasons arsenic a sophomore and junior, Huntley threw for 3,092 yards, 19 touchdowns, a 73-percent completion percent and 4 interceptions arsenic a senior, according to NFL.com. He added 104 carries for 290 yards and 5 rushing touchdowns.

Huntley played precocious schoolhouse shot for Hallandale High School successful Broward County, culminating successful his being named the 2015 Florida Gatorade Football Player of the Year.

For what it’s worth, Jackson has spoken glowingly of Huntley successful the past, saying successful December 2020 that helium “knows what [Hundley] is susceptible of doing,” according to the franchise’s website.

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“We privation to support him nether the radar arsenic overmuch arsenic possible,” Jackson said.