Lamar Jackson says group should do higher job of getting Marquise Brown ball initially appeared on NBC Sports activities Washington

After the Ravens’ heart-breaking loss to the Steelers on Sunday, huge receiver Marquise Brown took to Twitter to voice his frustrations about his utilization on the sphere.

“What is the level of getting souljas while you by no means use them (By no means!!)” Brown wrote in a since-deleted tweet.

Brown has 27 catches on 44 targets this season via seven video games with 379 yards receiving and two touchdowns. He’s averaging 54.1 yards-per-game, 13 yards greater than he averaged a yr in the past. However in opposition to the Steelers, he was a close to non-factor.

He caught only one go (for a landing) for 3 yards on two targets. His goal share tied him for fifth-most on the group. Each of his targets got here on back-to-back performs.

Wednesday, quarterback Lamar Jackson stated the group must get Brown extra concerned within the passing sport.

“For positive, that’s one in all our key gamers to our offense,” he stated. “We need to get him the ball one of the best, the simplest, the quickest means we are able to. Simply have gotten to do a greater job of getting it to him. He’s an enormous a part of our offense and we want him. Simply obtained to do higher at that and we’ll be high-quality.”

Coach John Harbaugh stated Monday that he spoke with Brown about his tweet, and that he appreciated the truth that he deleted it. He hadn’t talked to him in individual concerning the tweet as of Monday, however spoke with him over textual content.

The Ravens’ passing sport has struggled this season in a yr the place expectations have been excessive for Jackson and the group to take the following step. But when Brown can take a step ahead and get extra concerned as he needs, it’s attainable the offense may take the soar they’ve been on the lookout for.

“I’ll let you know this, he did play the sport like a soldier,” Harbaugh stated. “He was combating very exhausting on the market — blocking and operating routes and had, clearly, an enormous landing catch, nearly one other one proper earlier than that. So, I like the way in which he was combating. I don’t disagree with the truth that if he’s saying he’s a soldier. However I promise you, we’re attempting to make use of all of our guys; he is aware of that.”