In the 2021 season, the Baltimore Ravens had horrible injury luck the likes of which no other NFL team has seen in this millennium. Literally. The good folks at Football Outsiders, who keep track of such things with their Adjusted Games Lost metric, have reported that the 2021 Ravens had an AGL of 191.2, far outpacing the 2006 Chicago Bears, who held the previous mark of 171.6. That’s about 191 total games lost for starters and impact players to injury in one season. Not great, and it’s the primary reason Baltimore finished last season with an 8-9 record, missing the playoffs for the first time since 2017.
The good for the 2022 Ravens was supposed to be that AGL tends to regress to the mean in the following year. In other words, the Ravens were not supposed to have historically horrible injury luck two years in a row.
