Lamar Jackson Injury Raises Questions Before Bengals Game

And I guess I should start with arguably the best quarterback, second best quarterback, depending on how you see it in the National Football League. And quite bizarre what's going on here with Lamar Jackson. ESPN reported yesterday that he was downgraded to out for this game against the Bengals. And he is in the last year of his contract. So the murmurs have begun. Is Lamar good enough to play? But maybe not playing. Maybe I'm getting ahead of myself here, Dr. Chow. So what do you make of this entire situation with Lamar, who seemingly got his way, stayed, didn't get a deal, coach got fired, but yet here we are again, and Tyler Huntley starting against the Bengals. Look, for Sports Injury Central, we've anticipated all this. Sorry about my voice here. We anticipate all this for weeks now, which is Lamar Jackson has a legitimate ankle eversion injury. Lamar Jackson is legitimately not 100%. Is it possible for him to play through, yes, from the pocket, but that's not just Lamar Jackson. He has so many facets to his game. We've described it as he's an F1, Formula One race car, not a pickup truck. So he's a fine-tuned machine. We've seen this before in 2022 with the knee and the ankle. I'm not denigrating Lamar at all. He's a great athlete, but he needs to run closer to 100% to be effective. been what he's done through his career, and we've been saying this at Sports Injury Central for the last couple of weeks.