The Pro Bowl wideout when down with a knee injury in the first half and will not return.
The Baltimore will have to finish their quest for a second straight AFC North title without leading receiver Zay Flowers who left the game in the first half with a knee injury and has officially been downgraded to out after initially being listed as questionable to return.
WR Zay Flowers (knee) has been ruled out for the rest of the game.
— Baltimore Ravens (@Ravens) January 4, 2025
Flowers, who is fresh off being named to his first career Pro Bowl, was off to a nice start to the team’s regular-season finale bout with the Cleveland Browns with 21 yards from scrimmage on two touching including a run of nine yards on a jet-sweep carry and a 12-yard pickup on a screen pass reception where he got hurt while going to the ground.
The second-year pro’s status moving forward beyond this game will be one to monitor as he is the Ravens leader in targets (115), receptions (74) and receiving yards (1,059) this season. They will need him for what many believe could be a deep playoff run after coming up short in the AFC championship game last postseason.
In Flower’s absence, fourth-year pro Rashod Bateman who briefly left the game after taking a big in the first quarter has stepped up in this game with three catches for 32 receiving yards and the ninth touchdown of his breakout season to cap off the Ravens’ first drive of the second half.
Put up the Bat signal
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— Baltimore Ravens (@Ravens) January 4, 2025