Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson has a full week of practice to get ready for the playoffs.
The sixth-seeded Ravens’ wild-card-round game against the third-seeded Cincinnati Bengals will kick off at 8:15 p.m. Sunday and be televised on NBC, the NFL announced Sunday night.
The AFC North rivals split their season series, with the Ravens winning in Baltimore in Week 5, 19-17, and the division champion Bengals cruising to a 27-16 home victory in Sunday’s regular-season finale.
“It’s kind of exciting,” Ravens cornerback Marlon Humphrey said after Sunday’s loss, in which the Ravens sat several starters. “We kind of just studied them, so as [safety] Chuck [Clark] said, ‘We just had a scrimmage.’ It was a scrimmage we wish we would have won, obviously, but to play them again, they’re pretty familiar with us, we’re pretty familiar with them. So it’s just going to be, who’s a better team? I think when you play a team three times, the better team should usually show.”
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Jackson hasn’t played or practiced since suffering a Week 13 knee injury, but coach John Harbaugh said Friday that he was hopeful Jackson would return for the playoffs. Backup Tyler Huntley, limited in practice last week by tendinitis in his right (throwing) shoulder, was also inactive Sunday but would likely be available next weekend.
With a win, the Ravens would stay on the road for the divisional round, where the top-seeded Kansas City Chiefs would face the AFC’s lowest remaining seed, and the two remaining teams would play each other.
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