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Jamison Hensley
OWINGS MILL, Md. — Professional Bowl large receiver Zay Flowers mentioned Tuesday he has absolutely recovered from a proper knee damage that sidelined him for each of the Baltimore Ravens‘ playoff video games final season.
“My knee is nice,” Flowers mentioned in the beginning of the Ravens’ second week of organized crew actions. “I really feel 100%. I really feel like I am prepared for the season. No limits.”
Final season, Flowers grew to become the the primary participant in Ravens historical past to achieve the Professional Bowl as a large receiver. He was Lamar Jackson‘s prime goal, main Baltimore with 74 receptions and 1,059 receiving yards.
However Flowers did not play within the Ravens’ postseason after injuring his proper knee throughout Baltimore’s regular-season finale on Jan. 4 in opposition to the Cleveland Browns. It marked the primary time that he missed consecutive video games.
Flowers mentioned it was “tremendous powerful” to sit down out the 27-25 divisional-round loss on the Buffalo Payments.
“Whenever you play 17 video games simply to get to the primary playoff recreation and you’ll’t play in it, it is all the time arduous,” Flowers mentioned. “Lacking a playoff recreation is completely different. Not less than we get to play [the Bills] in our first recreation this yr.”
Flowers did not want surgical procedure to get better from the best knee damage. He was capable of get again with rehab.
A primary-round decide in 2023, Flowers is now trying to develop into the primary Ravens participant to provide consecutive 1,000-yard receiving seasons since Derrick Mason put collectively three straight from 2007 to 2009.
“We simply need to get him the ball extra,” Ravens offensive coordinator Todd Monken mentioned. “He is an unbelievable soccer participant. He isn’t solely an outdoor receiver that has elite route-running abilities. However he is unbelievable with the ball in his palms. So you might have a man that matches two positions and performs two spots.”
Along with offseason practices in Baltimore, Flowers has been catching passes from Jackson throughout their personal exercises in Florida.
“It simply will get our timing down,” Flowers mentioned. “Like if we’re working routes, he’ll say: ‘Run it this manner’ or ‘I like the way you ran it this manner.’ It is actually about speaking loads and detailing the small issues that he needs to get down.”
Flowers, although, has no real interest in representing america within the Olympics for flag soccer. NFL homeowners have permitted a proposal for gamers to take part in flag soccer on the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.
“I play actual soccer,” he mentioned. “I ain’t actually nervous about going to the Olympics. I am attempting to win a Tremendous Bowl.”
