Quarterback · Baltimore Ravens

Lamar Jackson

No. 8 · 9th season

The defensive coordinator doesn't want anyone else back there

There are quarterbacks, and then there are quarterbacks your defensive coordinator goes out of their way to vouch for. Jesse Minter is the person whose job it is to stop offenses — and he wants Lamar Jackson running this one.

Jackson has spent years building a case that he is one of the best players in the league. Multiple MVP awards, a team that has structured itself around what he does. The offseason is usually a quiet period, something players manage — Jackson, by Minter's account, treated it like a mission.

Minter said Jackson put in significant work and had an incredible offseason. He also said, plainly, that there is nobody he would rather have as the quarterback and face of this franchise. That is a specific kind of endorsement — it came from the defensive side of the building, which has no incentive to say it unless it is true.

What it signals is a locker room that believes in what is coming. Minter did not have to say any of that. He did.

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