Ravens QB Lamar Jackson ruled out for Week 8 game vs. Bears

Brian Wacker, The Baltimore Sun on Oct 25, 2025

Published in Football

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BALTIMORE — A day after Lamar Jackson practiced fully for the first time since injuring his hamstring last month, the Baltimore Ravens on Saturday ruled the quarterback out for Sunday’s game against the Chicago Bears.

“There has been an update to Lamar Jackson’s Friday practice and game status,” the Ravens posted on social media. “Jackson was downgraded from a full practice participant to limited, and he has been ruled out for tomorrow’s game vs. Chicago.”

It marks the third straight game that Jackson, 28, will miss because of the injury, which he sustained during Baltimore’s Week 4 loss to the Kansas City Chiefs. He had been listed as questionable on Friday’s injury report.

Tyler Huntley will start in his place with Cooper Rush serving as the backup after Rush had started the previous two games.

The Ravens, who are 1-5 and in last place in the AFC North, are 0-2 since the two-time NFL Most Valuable Player was injured and 4-12 in games in which he has not played since becoming the starting quarterback in 2018.

Huntley was signed from the practice squad to the 53-man roster on Friday. He has a career 5-9 record as a starter.

It will also mark Huntley’s second straight game seeing action. In the Ravens’ Week 6 loss to the Los Angeles Rams, he came off the bench and completed 10 of 15 passes for 68 yards but was sacked four times. He also ran three times for 39 yards.

Huntley, 27, is in his third stint with Baltimore after spending 2024 briefly with the Cleveland Browns’ practice squad and then the Dolphins, appearing in five games for Miami. For his career, he has completed 64.7% of his passes for 2,854 yards and 11 touchdowns with 10 interceptions. He also has 144 career carries for 683 yards and five more scores.

The Ravens are in a must-win situation with only one team in the modern era — the 1970 Bengals — to start a season 1-6 and still make the playoffs.

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