Jamison Hensley Sep 10, 2023, 1:00 PM Reading: 2 min.
In his place will be Isaiah Likely; Andrews is the second high-profile tight end to miss Week 1
BALTIMORE — For only the second time in his six-year career in the NFLPro Bowl tight end, Mark Andrews, will miss a game due to injury.
Mark Andrews He was ruled out of the team’s first game of the season. Baltimore Ravens against the Houston Texans Sunday with a quadriceps injury. He had been listed as questionable after being limited all week in practice.
The only other time Andrews was sidelined with an injury was in Week 9 of last season, when he was inactive with shoulder and knee injuries in Baltimore’s 27-13 win at New Orleans.
Mark Andrews will miss Week 1 due to injury.AP
Isaiah Likely, a 2022 fourth-round pick, will start in place of Andrews. In two games in which Andrews was sidelined last year (he rested in Week 18), Likely totaled nine receptions for 127 yards and a touchdown.
Los Ravens they expect to sit a Mark Andrews in Week 1 allows him to play next Sunday’s game against the Cincinnati Bengals, the two-time defending AFC North champions. Andrews has been the quarterback’s top target Lamar Jackson since both were selected by the Ravens in the 2018 draft. Andrews caught 242 passes from Jackson for 3,195 yards and 27 touchdowns over those five seasons.
Last month, Andrews suffered a quadriceps injury that caused him to miss six consecutive practices. He returned to the field Wednesday, but did not finish practices Wednesday and Thursday.
Mark Andrews He was noncommittal Thursday when asked if he would play against the Texanssaying that the injury was “complicated” and “God willing, I will be there.”
Before last season, Andrews missed one game in 2019 to stay ahead of the playoffs and two in 2020 after testing positive for COVID-19.
Mark Andrews becomes the second high-profile tight end not to participate in Week 1. On Thursday night, Travis Kelce he missed the first game of the Kansas City Chiefs due to a knee injury.
2023-09-10 16:31:52
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