Kyle Hamilton's Hip Injury Just Turned a Bad Ravens Night Into a Full-Blown Crisis

The Baltimore Ravens are currently getting boat-raced by the Jacksonville Jaguars, but the scoreboard is officially the second-worst thing happening to them right now.

Star safety Kyle Hamilton has been officially ruled out for the rest of the game with a hip injury, according to Mike Garafolo.

"Mike Garafolo reported: '#Ravens S Kyle Hamilton (hip) has been ruled out for the rest of the game.'"

Losing your All-Pro safety in the middle of a 20-3 beatdown is the football equivalent of getting a flat tire while your car is already being towed. The Ravens defense relies on Hamilton to do basically everything short of selling concessions, and his early exit leaves a massive crater in their secondary.

This is not exactly a sudden breakdown out of nowhere, either. Hamilton has been battling lower-body issues for a month, struggling through a groin injury from Weeks 5 through 8 and missing practice time just this week. When a guy who averages 7.1 tackles a game and racked up 105 of them last season starts stacking up leg injuries, it is time to hit the panic button.

For anyone holding live tickets on the Ravens mounting a comeback or keeping the Jaguars' team total in check, Hamilton walking to the locker room was the universe telling you to look away. You simply do not replace a defensive chess piece like that on the fly, especially when the defense is already bleeding points.

Now Baltimore has to wait for the medical staff to tell them just how bad this hip issue really is. If Hamilton misses significant time, the Ravens are going to have to completely rewire how they play defense before their next kickoff.