Jamison Hensley
OWINGS MILLS, Md. — The Baltimore Ravens have been fined $100,000 on Friday for violating the league's harm report coverage by incorrectly itemizing quarterback Lamar Jackson's observe participation final week.
Baltimore prevented shedding a draft decide as a result of the league decided the violation was the results of negligence and never an try to achieve a aggressive benefit.
The Ravens is not going to enchantment the effective.
Shortly after the NFL's announcement, the Ravens wrote in a press release: “It's crucial that the Baltimore Ravens all the time function with integrity and in full accordance with NFL tips. We clearly made an error concerning participant harm reporting and cooperated transparently with the league's investigation. We settle for the choice by the NFL that we violated the coverage and have taken steps to make sure that we might be compliant shifting ahead.”
In line with a league supply, the Ravens cooperated totally with the investigation. If the investigation had decided the violation was intentional or aggressive in nature, the self-discipline would have been extra vital, together with the potential lack of draft picks, the supply added.
The self-discipline stems from the Ravens itemizing Jackson as a full participant for an Oct. 24 observe the place he ran solely the scout staff. Baltimore then modified Jackson's observe participation to restricted a day later whereas additionally ruling him out.
The NFL harm report coverage states: “Participation on the scout staff, regardless of how in depth, by a participant whose regular repetitions can be with the starter however for his medical situation, wouldn't alter the participant's correct designation as ‘restricted participation.'”
Jackson, who was coping with a proper hamstring harm, had been listed as a restricted participant for practices on Wednesday and Thursday for the week main as much as the Ravens' recreation in opposition to the Chicago Bears. When he was upgraded to a full participant on that Friday — which was the final full observe of the week — it urged that the two-time NFL Most Precious Participant was trending towards enjoying.
After altering Jackson's observe participation final week, the Ravens defined in a press release that they made the choice to take action “upon additional analysis at present and after conferring with the league workplace, as a result of Lamar did not take any starter reps in observe.”
Filling in for the injured Jackson, Tyler Huntley led the Ravens to a 30-16 win over the Bears on Sunday. After the sport, Ravens coach John Harbaugh mentioned the violation of the NFL's harm report coverage was “an trustworthy mistake.”
Bears coach Ben Johnson would not say how a lot the Ravens' change in Jackson's observe participation standing impacted Sunday's recreation.
“Like I mentioned early within the week, we have been getting ready for Lamar,” Johnson mentioned, “after which once we discovered he wasn't enjoying, then we prepare for the subsequent man.”
