OWINGS MILLS, Md. — The Baltimore Ravens have been fined $100,000 on Friday for violating the league’s damage report coverage by incorrectly itemizing quarterback Lamar Jackson’s apply participation final week.
Baltimore prevented dropping a draft choose as a result of the league decided the violation was the results of negligence and never an try to realize a aggressive benefit.
The Ravens won’t enchantment the high quality.
Shortly after the NFL’s announcement, the Ravens wrote in an announcement: “It’s important that the Baltimore Ravens all the time function with integrity and in full accordance with NFL pointers. We clearly made an error concerning participant damage reporting and cooperated transparently with the league’s investigation. We settle for the choice by the NFL that we violated the coverage and have taken steps to make sure that we might be compliant transferring ahead.”
In response to a league supply, the Ravens cooperated totally with the investigation. If the investigation had decided the violation was intentional or aggressive in nature, the self-discipline would have been extra important, together with the potential lack of draft picks, the supply added.
The self-discipline stems from the Ravens itemizing Jackson as a full participant for an Oct. 24 apply the place he ran solely the scout workforce. Baltimore then modified Jackson’s apply participation to restricted a day later whereas additionally ruling him out.
The NFL damage report coverage states: “Participation on the scout workforce, regardless of how intensive, by a participant whose regular repetitions can be with the starter however for his medical situation, wouldn’t alter the participant’s correct designation as ‘restricted participation.'”
Jackson, who was coping with a proper hamstring damage, had been listed as a restricted participant for practices on Wednesday and Thursday for the week main as much as the Ravens’ recreation towards the Chicago Bears. When he was upgraded to a full participant on that Friday — which was the final full apply of the week — it prompt that the two-time NFL Most Precious Participant was trending towards enjoying.
After altering Jackson’s apply participation final week, the Ravens defined in an announcement that they made the choice to take action “upon additional analysis right this moment and after conferring with the league workplace, as a result of Lamar did not take any starter reps in apply.”
Filling in for the injured Jackson, Tyler Huntley led the Ravens to a 30-16 win over the Bears on Sunday. After the sport, Ravens coach John Harbaugh mentioned the violation of the NFL’s damage report coverage was “an sincere mistake.”
Bears coach Ben Johnson would not say how a lot the Ravens’ change in Jackson’s apply participation standing impacted Sunday’s recreation.
“Like I mentioned early within the week, we have been getting ready for Lamar,” Johnson mentioned, “after which after we discovered he wasn’t enjoying, then we prepare for the following man.”
