Ravens QB Room Decimated: Lamar Jackson to IR, Tyler Huntley Awaits MRI

Losing your MVP quarterback on the first drive of a game is a nightmare. Losing his backup to a toe injury in the exact same afternoon is just the football gods actively laughing at your franchise.

The Baltimore Ravens are officially living that nightmare. According to Adam Schefter, Tyler Huntley suffered a suspected turf toe injury during Sunday's blowout loss to the Buffalo Bills and is awaiting MRI results.

"Adam Schefter reported Huntley's turf toe and Jackson's IR placement."

This comes with the devastating reality that Lamar Jackson is already heading to injured reserve. Jackson injured his right thumb on the very first offensive play of the game, requires surgery, and will miss at least the next four weeks.

Baltimore ended up getting completely smoked 36-10 by Buffalo, dropping them to a painfully average 4-4 on the season. Now, a team built entirely around a dynamic, dual-threat rushing attack has to figure out how to function without the two guys who actually make it work.

If Huntley misses time, the keys to the offense get handed to rookie Joe Fagnano. Handing a rookie his first career start is tough enough, but doing it when your entire offensive identity just went to the hospital is a different level of bleak.

The timing could not possibly be worse for the Ravens. They have to turn around and play the 5-2 Jacksonville Jaguars this Thursday night, giving them roughly 72 hours to invent a completely new playbook.

Anyone looking at the betting markets for Thursday Night Football is going to see a line that looks like a typo. Trying to price in a third-string rookie quarterback on a short week against a division leader is the kind of math that breaks oddsmakers.

Baltimore has to hope Huntley's MRI brings some kind of miracle. Otherwise, they are staring down a primetime game with a quarterback room held together by duct tape and sheer panic.