Lamar Jackson is back on the practice field Thursday, adding more reason to believe he will start Sunday’s AFC North title game in Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n
Jackson was a full participant on Wednesday and is on track to have his first full week of practice since early November.<\/p>\n
On Wednesday, Head Coach John Harbaugh said Jackson looked good at practice and he was “very optimistic” about Jackson’s chances of playing Sunday night.<\/p>\n
“It felt great out there today; just going through the offense, making plays, making the right reads,” tight end Mark Andrews said. “It was a great workday, and it was awesome to have [Jackson] out there.”<\/p>\n
Two key starters, wide receiver Rashod Bateman and outside linebacker Kyle Van Noy, are not practicing for a second straight day. Bateman is dealing with an illness and Van Noy has a quad injury.<\/p>\n
In Steelers news, it continues to sound more likely than not that star outside linebacker T.J. Watt will return to the field after missing the past three weeks due to a partially collapsed lung. However, it remains to be seen how many snaps Watt can take. He was limited in Wednesday’s practice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lamar Jackson is back on the practice field Thursday, adding more reason to believe he will start Sunday’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":382263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[184333,184334,257,11179,17263,14382,349,11178,99,85020],"class_list":["post-382262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-2025-week-18","tag-2025-week-18-news","tag-general","tag-homepage-centerpiece","tag-inline-news","tag-lamar-jackson","tag-nfl","tag-ryan-mink","tag-sports","tag-wpwn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}