{"id":75885,"date":"2026-01-02T00:11:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T00:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/75885\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T00:11:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T00:11:10","slug":"ravens-qb-lamar-jackson-says-hes-playing-sunday-at-pittsburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/75885\/","title":{"rendered":"Ravens QB Lamar Jackson says he&#8217;s playing Sunday at Pittsburgh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tLamar Jackson says he\u2019s expecting to play when the Baltimore Ravens take on the Steelers in Pittsburgh for the AFC North title Sunday night.\u201cA hundred percent,\u201d the star quarterback said. \u201cI\u2019m going to be out there.\u201dVideo above: Lamar Jackson returns to practice with RavensJackson returned to practice Wednesday and was a full participant, but he didn\u2019t talk with reporters at the podium until Thursday. He said he\u2019s feeling good after missing last weekend\u2019s game at Green Bay because of a back injury.That was the fourth game this season Jackson has missed, the first three because of hamstring problems. Jackson addressed some of the skepticism that\u2019s come his way lately regarding his willingness to play through pain.\u201cI never quit on my team before. I never quit anything to be honest with you,\u201d Jackson said. \u201cI don\u2019t know where that noise came from.\u201dJackson said he believes he has a good relationship with coach John Harbaugh and \u201cabsolutely\u201d wants to be in Baltimore.The Ravens need a win this weekend to make the playoffs after they entered the season as a popular Super Bowl pick.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tOWINGS MILLS, Md. (AP) \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Lamar Jackson says he\u2019s expecting to play when the Baltimore Ravens take on the Steelers in Pittsburgh <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtae.com\/article\/mike-tomlin-steelers-week-18-nfl-baltimore-ravens\/69888710\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">for the AFC North title Sunday night<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA hundred percent,\u201d the star quarterback said. \u201cI\u2019m going to be out there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Video above: Lamar Jackson returns to practice with Ravens<\/p>\n<p>Jackson returned to practice Wednesday and was a full participant, but he didn\u2019t talk with reporters at the podium until Thursday. He said he\u2019s feeling good after missing last weekend\u2019s game at Green Bay because of a back injury.<\/p>\n<p>That was the fourth game this season Jackson has missed, the first three because of hamstring problems. Jackson addressed some of the skepticism that\u2019s come his way lately regarding his willingness to play through pain.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI never quit on my team before. I never quit anything to be honest with you,\u201d Jackson said. \u201cI don\u2019t know where that noise came from.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jackson said he believes he has a good relationship with coach John Harbaugh and \u201cabsolutely\u201d wants to be in Baltimore.<\/p>\n<p>The Ravens need a win this weekend to make the playoffs after they entered the season as a popular Super Bowl pick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lamar Jackson says he\u2019s expecting to play when the Baltimore Ravens take on the Steelers in Pittsburgh for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75886,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[4701,4916,39077,3618,11944,4919,39073,31918,73,75,74,1833,39076,39075,39074,1829,1837,3522,7176],"class_list":{"0":"post-75885","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-afc-north","9":"tag-baltimore-ravens","10":"tag-coach-john-harbaugh","11":"tag-game","12":"tag-green-bay","13":"tag-lamar-jackson","14":"tag-last-weekend","15":"tag-percent","16":"tag-pittsburgh","17":"tag-pittsburgh-headlines","18":"tag-pittsburgh-news","19":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers","20":"tag-podium","21":"tag-ravens-qb-lamar-jackson","22":"tag-season-jackson","23":"tag-steelers","24":"tag-sunday","25":"tag-thursday","26":"tag-win"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}