OWINGS MILL, Md. — Professional Bowl broad receiver Zay Flowers mentioned Tuesday he has absolutely recovered from a proper knee harm that sidelined him for each of the Baltimore Ravens’ playoff video games final season.
“My knee is nice,” Flowers mentioned at first of the Ravens’ second week of organized workforce actions. “I really feel 100%. I really feel like I am prepared for the season. No limits.”
Final season, Flowers grew to become the the primary participant in Ravens historical past to succeed in the Professional Bowl as a large receiver. He was Lamar Jackson’s prime goal, main Baltimore with 74 receptions and 1,059 receiving yards.
However Flowers did not play within the Ravens’ postseason after injuring his proper knee throughout Baltimore’s regular-season finale on Jan. 4 towards the Cleveland Browns. It marked the primary time that he missed consecutive video games.
Flowers mentioned it was “tremendous powerful” to sit down out the 27-25 divisional-round loss on the Buffalo Payments.
“Once you play 17 video games simply to get to the primary playoff recreation and you’ll’t play in it, it is at all times arduous,” Flowers mentioned. “Lacking a playoff recreation is completely different. No less than we get to play [the Bills] in our first recreation this yr.”
Flowers did not want surgical procedure to get well from the fitting knee harm. He was in a position to get again with rehab.
A primary-round choose in 2023, Flowers is now trying to grow to be the primary Ravens participant to provide consecutive 1,000-yard receiving seasons since Derrick Mason put collectively three straight from 2007 to 2009.
“We simply must get him the ball extra,” Ravens offensive coordinator Todd Monken mentioned. “He is an unbelievable soccer participant. He is not solely an out of doors receiver that has elite route-running abilities. However he is unbelievable with the ball in his arms. So you’ve a man that matches two positions and performs two spots.”
Along with offseason practices in Baltimore, Flowers has been catching passes from Jackson throughout their non-public exercises in Florida.
“It simply will get our timing down,” Flowers mentioned. “Like if we’re working routes, he’ll say: ‘Run it this fashion’ or ‘I like the way you ran it this fashion.’ It is actually about speaking quite a bit and detailing the small issues that he desires to get down.”
Flowers, although, has no real interest in representing the USA within the Olympics for flag soccer. NFL homeowners have authorized a proposal for gamers to take part in flag soccer on the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.
“I play actual soccer,” he mentioned. “I ain’t actually apprehensive about going to the Olympics. I am making an attempt to win a Tremendous Bowl.”
