{"id":210308,"date":"2025-01-14T13:00:56","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T18:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/?p=210308"},"modified":"2025-01-13T20:24:48","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T01:24:48","slug":"john-harbaugh-zay-flowers-injury-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2025\/01\/14\/john-harbaugh-zay-flowers-injury-update\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;We&#8217;ll See&#8221; &#8211; Ravens John Harbaugh Gives Discouraging Update on Injured Star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Baltimore Ravens wide receiver Zay Flowers suffered a knee injury in the regular season finale which sidelined him for the team&#8217;s dominant <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/recap\/_\/gameId\/401671879\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wild Card victory<\/a> over the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/category\/nfl-teams\/steelers\/\" target=\"_self\">Pittsburgh Steelers<\/a>. At the time, reports deemed Flowers week-to-week with an outside chance to suit up in the playoff match against their longtime rivals. While that didn&#8217;t happen, the team hopes the Pro Bowl wide receiver can play in Sunday&#8217;s matchup against the Buffalo Bills.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing is official as of yet, but head coach John Harbaugh&#8217;s latest interview does not sound encouraging. Speaking to reporters earlier in the week, the one-time Super Bowl champion head coach didn&#8217;t rule out Zay Flowers but made it clear that he is not fully recovered from his injury.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;That&#8217;s in we&#8217;ll see mode. He&#8217;s working hard to get back and we&#8217;ll see towards the end of the week if he&#8217;s practicing. He could play without practicng, for sure, if he feels healthy enough and it&#8217;s safe for him.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;We&#39;ll see.&quot; <\/p>\n<p>Coach Harbaugh on WR Zay Flowers: <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Qg0lY5OLLx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/Qg0lY5OLLx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Baltimore Ravens (@Ravens) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ravens\/status\/1878889765077930134?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">January 13, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>John Harbaugh Gives Discouraging Zay Flowers Injury Update<\/h2>\n<p>Perhaps Flowers can suit up on game day, but the fact John Harbaugh can&#8217;t even confirm he&#8217;ll practice this week is discouraging. While the Ravens didn&#8217;t need the Pro Bowler to beat the struggling Pittsburgh Steelers, he could be the difference in Sunday&#8217;s matchup against the Buffalo Bills.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2024\/12\/17\/josh-allen-mvp-buffalo-bills-2024-nfl-honors-award-candidates-contenders\/\" target=\"_self\">Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson<\/a> were the two best quarterbacks in football this year and the two deserving frontrunners for the MVP award. While Baltimore has the better all-around team, Allen has the raw ability to singlehandedly win games, and Buffalo&#8217;s roster is strong enough in its own right.<\/p>\n<p>The Ravens will need all the help they can get to make their second AFC Championship Game in as many seasons, and Flowers is a major part of the passing attack. Appearing in all 17 regular season games, the former first-round pick finished the season with 74 receptions for 1,059 yards and four touchdowns while becoming the first <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2025\/01\/02\/watch-zay-flowers-reaction-historic-pro-bowl-selection\/\" target=\"_self\">Ravens receiver to make the Pro Bowl<\/a> in franchise history.<\/p>\n<p><em>Main Photo: Mitch Stringer &#8211; USA Today Sports<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baltimore Ravens head coach John Harbaugh recently gave a discouraging injury update on the health of Pro Bowl wide receiver Zay Flowers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2376,"featured_media":210309,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,36],"tags":[246,7638,9722],"class_list":["post-210308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ravens","category-nfl-news","tag-nfl-news","tag-ravens-featured","tag-zay-flowers"],"modified_by":"David Latham, Managing Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2376"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210310,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210308\/revisions\/210310"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}