{"id":75915,"date":"2026-01-02T01:23:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T01:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/75915\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T01:23:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T01:23:06","slug":"baltimores-lamar-jackson-says-hes-playing-sunday-at-pittsburgh-a-hundred-percent-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/75915\/","title":{"rendered":"Baltimore&#8217;s Lamar Jackson says he&#8217;s playing Sunday at Pittsburgh: &#8216;A hundred percent&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">OWINGS MILLS, Md. &#8212; Lamar Jackson says he&#8217;s expecting to play when the Baltimore Ravens take on the Steelers in Pittsburgh for the AFC North title Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">\u201cA hundred percent,\u201d the star quarterback said. &#8220;I&#8217;m going to be out there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Jackson returned to practice Wednesday and was a full participant, but he didn&#8217;t talk with reporters at the podium until Thursday. He said he&#8217;s feeling good after missing last weekend&#8217;s game at Green Bay because of a back injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">That was the fourth game this season Jackson has missed, the first three because of hamstring problems. Jackson addressed some of the skepticism that&#8217;s come his way lately regarding his willingness to play through pain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">\u201cI never quit on my team before. I never quit anything to be honest with you,&#8221; Jackson said. &#8220;I don&#8217;t know where that noise came from.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Jackson said he believes he has a good relationship with coach John Harbaugh and \u201cabsolutely\u201d wants to be in Baltimore.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Ravens need a win this weekend to make the playoffs after they entered the season as a popular Super Bowl pick.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">AP NFL: <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nfl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nfl<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OWINGS MILLS, Md. &#8212; Lamar Jackson says he&#8217;s expecting to play when the Baltimore Ravens take on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75916,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[39095,1165,303,7393,39094,73,75,74,726],"class_list":{"0":"post-75915","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-39095","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-nfl-football","12":"tag-nfl-super-bowl","13":"tag-pittsburgh","14":"tag-pittsburgh-headlines","15":"tag-pittsburgh-news","16":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75915","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=75915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}