Jackson said Flowers’ work ethic pushes him as well.<\/p>\n
“His grind is out of this world,” Jackson said. “I appreciate him working that hard.”<\/p>\n
Jackson’s 2025 season was plagued by lower-body injuries, which sidelined him for four games and limited him in others. Those injuries were a major reason why he posted a career-low 26.8 rushing yards per game and 5.2 yards per carry.<\/p>\n
Jackson’s rushing attempts per game also dropped to a career-low 5.2. He has run less every year since 2021, when he averaged 11.1 carries per game.<\/p>\n
It remains to be seen how much Jackson will run in new Offensive Coordinator Declan Doyle’s offense, but there’s no doubt that he’ll still be a major threat with his legs, especially considering how good of shape he’s in.<\/p>\n
“I’m the type of player, you gotta pick your poison,” Jackson said.<\/p>\n
“I’m approaching the defense with whatever they give me, I’m going to take that. I’m trying to score, I’m trying to move the ball down the field. If I don’t have to run, I’m not going to run. I’m not going to force anything. I’m trying to win, so you have to use your mind.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jackson said Flowers’ work ethic pushes him as well. “His grind is out of this world,” Jackson said.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":791424,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[257,2593,17263,14382,349,11178,99,35299],"class_list":["post-791423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-general","tag-homepage-latest-headlines","tag-inline-news","tag-lamar-jackson","tag-nfl","tag-ryan-mink","tag-sports","tag-zay-flowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791423","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=791423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/791424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}