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The game was marred by the loss of Bengals star
quarterback Joe Burrow to a wrist injury in the second quarter.
Jackson came out on fire, completing passes of 14 yards to Mark
Andrews and 33 yards to Zay Flowers on the opening drive. Those
passes set the stage for a 3-yard touchdown run by Edwards.
Cincinnati responded with a 50-yard Evan McPherson field goal.
Burrow injured his right wrist while leading his team on a
go-ahead touchdown drive midway through the second quarter.
Burrow bent over in obvious pain after throwing a 4-yard pass in
the flat to Joe Mixon, who ran it into the end zone to put the
Bengals up 10-7 with 5:49 left in the half. Burrow finished the
game 11-of-17 for 101 yards and the touchdown to Mixon.
Burrow spent several minutes in the medical tent before jogging
off the field and to the locker room for further treatment. TV
images showed significant and immediate swelling in the area of
his right wrist.
While Burrow was being treated, the Ravens appeared to take the
lead on a 68-yard Jackson-to-Flowers touchdown pass down the
left sideline. But Odell Beckham Jr. was call for holding Chido
Awuzie. Later in the drive, a Jackson pass over the middle was
deflected by Germaine Pratt and into the hands of Nelson Agholor,
who raced into the end zone for a 37-yard touchdown.
Jake Browning came in for Burrow and managed to generate one
first down, but the Bengals later punted. Browning finished the
game 8-for-14 for 68 yards and a touchdown as Burrow's
replacement.
Jackson then marched the team 80 yards in seven plays in just 67
seconds, adding to their lead when the quarterback fired a
10-yard pass in the end zone to Rashod Bateman. Baltimore took a
21-10 lead to the locker room at the half.
The Ravens won the game despite losing tight end Mark Andrews to
an ankle injury on their first drive.
Browning engineered a 10-play, 67-yard drive to open the second
half, capped by a 26-yard field goal from McPherson.
Adding insult to the loss and the Burrow injury, the Bengals
lost their top cornerback Cam Taylor-Britt late in the first
half when he aggravated his quad on the Bateman touchdown as he
slipped in the end zone.
Beckham also left the game with a shoulder injury on a Logan
Wilson hit midway through the fourth quarter.
The game was halted for several minutes at the start of the
fourth quarter due to a drone flying inside the stadium.
--Field Level Media
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