BALTIMORE — As Lamar Jackson and the Ravens continue their negotiations over the most important contract in franchise history, the star quarterback’s most important gesture of the process might’ve also been the simplest: He showed up for work Wednesday.
At the end of the Ravens’ mid-June mandatory minicamp, Jackson had seemingly left open the possibility of sitting out Week 1, and perhaps even training camp, if a contract extension hadn’t been agreed upon. “We’re having conversations about it,” he said. “I don’t know.”
But Jackson reported to Owings Mills last Thursday, led the Ravens’ offense in their first full-team practice of training camp Wednesday, and was upbeat and seemingly optimistic about the contract talks Thursday, his first news conference since minicamp.
