Ravens Insider: Ravens QB Lamar Jackson named AFC Offensive Player of Week after Dolphins blowout

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Lamar Jackson “played a perfect football game in terms of the passing game,” as Ravens coach John Harbaugh put it Sunday after Baltimore’s 56-19 blowout of the Miami Dolphins to wrap up the top seed in the AFC.

Jackson finished with a perfect passer rating of 158.3 after completing 18 of 21 passes for 321 yards and five touchdowns. It was the third time in his career he’s done so, and for the performance he was named AFC Offensive Player of the Week, the NFL announced Wednesday.

It is the second time this season Jackson has received the honor; the other came after he threw for 357 yards and three touchdowns and ran for another in a Week 7 rout of the Detroit Lions.

Jackson, who could sit in Saturday’s regular-season finale against the Pittsburgh Steelers, is the favorite to win his second NFL Most Valuable Player Award.

“He is a warrior, busting his tail day in and day out,” Ravens inside linebacker Roquan Smith said of Jackson’s performance against the Dolphins. “He came out here — we’re at ‘The Bank’ – [and] he knows we have to protect ‘The Bank’ by any means necessary, and he did just that. Look where we are; we go through him. So, I’m just proud to be on his team and not going against him.”

With one game left in the regular season, Jackson has thrown for a career-high 3,678 yards along with 24 touchdowns with just seven interceptions. He has also completed a career-best 67.2% of his passes and rushed for 821 yards and five scores.

This is the 10th time Jackson has been named AFC Offensive Player of the Week in his career, including five times in 2019 when he was the unanimous NFL MVP.

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