Lamar Jackson is Officially Back to Save the Ravens' Season

The Baltimore Ravens can finally exhale, because their entire offensive identity is officially walking back onto the field. According to Tom Pelissero, Lamar Jackson has cleared the injury report and will return to action this Sunday against the Buffalo Bills.

Jackson has been sidelined for three games with a high ankle sprain, and watching this team operate without him has been a genuinely tough hang. Last week's 35-13 blowout loss to the Cincinnati Bengals was the kind of game tape you burn in a metal barrel behind the practice facility.

"Tom Pelissero reported Jackson has no game designation on the injury report and is expected to return to action Sunday."

The Ravens are currently sitting at 4-3, which sounds fine until you realize that puts them in dead last in a completely unhinged AFC North where the Pittsburgh Steelers and Cleveland Browns are both 5-2. Baltimore desperately needs their star quarterback back under center to keep pace, especially since they are walking into a road matchup against a 5-1 Bills squad.

If you are holding Jackson in fantasy or looking at the prop market, this is the exact spot you want him returning to. The Bills might be winning games, but their defense is currently giving up the fourth-most fantasy points to quarterbacks. Jackson was averaging nearly 20 fantasy points a game before his ankle gave out, and he is walking into a secondary that has been extremely generous to opposing signal-callers.

Expect the Ravens to lean heavily on their fourth-ranked rushing attack to ease him back into the flow of things. But if Jackson is truly fully healthy and ready to exploit that Buffalo defense, Sunday afternoon just became the best game on the weekend slate.