Kicker · Baltimore Ravens

Tyler Loop

No. 33 · 2nd season

The kick missed. Then the coach left. Loop is still here.

A field goal as time expires. The playoffs on the other end of it. That is the cleanest version of pressure football can make, and Tyler Loop knows exactly how it felt when the ball didn't go through.

Loop is a kicker for the Baltimore Ravens — a position that exists almost entirely in the margins until a single moment asks everything of you. Week 18 against the Pittsburgh Steelers was that moment. A made kick sends Baltimore to the playoffs. A missed one ends the season on the spot. Loop missed, the Ravens lost 26-24, and the postseason went somewhere else.

What followed was the kind of offseason that tends to happen when a season ends that way. Head coach John Harbaugh, who had been with the Ravens for years, was gone. The team changed around the man who had the ball last.

Loop has said publicly that his confidence is intact. That is either the truest thing a person can say in his position, or the hardest. Maybe both.

He will kick again. The next one will carry everything the last one left behind.

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