Lamar Jackson regrets shoving fan during Ravens

Baltimore Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson expressed remorse Sunday night time for shoving a Buffalo Bills fan in the stands after the fan had slapped the helmets of Jackson and teammate DeAndre Hopkins as they celebrated a landing next to the stands at Highmark Stadium in upstate New York.

“I seen him slap D-Hop … and he slapped me and he talking, so you know I just forgot where I was for a little bit,” Jackson told reporters following the Ravens’ stunning 41-40 loss to the Bills on “Sunday Night Football”.

“But you got to think in those situations. You have security out there. Let security handle it. But I just let my emotions get the best of me. Hopefully, it don’t happen again. I learned from that.”

In a matchup between the 2 most current NFL MVPs — Buffalo quarterback Josh Allen in 2024 and Jackson in 2023 — Hopkins made a spectacular one-handed landing catch late in the third quarter to give the Ravens a 34-19 lead. Hopkins and Jackson have been among a quantity of Baltimore gamers who exited the back of the end zone to rejoice the rating.

As a number of of those gamers walked past the stands, a fan reached out and slapped Hopkins on the helmet, then did the same to Jackson. The four-time Pro Bowl participant, who also received the league’s MVP award in 2019, responded by shoving the fan laborious with both palms, which knocked the fan backward.

The Bills reported that the fan was ejected from the sport. Jackson was not disciplined during the sport. The Times reached out to the NFL and the Ravens about whether or not Jackson would possibly face any self-discipline for his function in the incident and didn’t obtain rapid responses.

While he regrets his actions in this occasion, Jackson told reporters he doesn’t see the need to stop celebrating so close to opposing followers.

“I’ve never seen our fans do that, so I’ll probably do it again [when] we score a touchdown,” Jackson said. “But it’s nothing against the fans, you know? I’m just celebrating my teammate scoring a touchdown.”

There wasn’t any celebrating to be had by the Ravens at the end of the sport, however, after they squandered a 40-25 lead in the ultimate 4 minutes. Allen capped a 10-play, 80-yard drive with a 10-yard landing cross to Keon Coleman to pull the Bills to within eight.

Two performs later, Baltimore working back Derrick Henry, who rushed for 169 yards and two touchdowns, fumbled the ball away to give Buffalo possession on the Ravens’ 30. The Bills scored on a 1-yard Allen run but missed on the two-point conversion to path 40-38 with 1:58 remaining.

The Ravens went three and out on the next possession, and the Bills drove 66 yards in 9 performs to set up a 32-yard, game-winning discipline aim by Matt Prater as time expired.