Baltimore Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson missed Thursday's practice with a back injury.

Lamar has now missed two practices in a row and will likely need to practice in some fashion on Friday to be cleared for Sunday. Our ninth ranked quarterback for Week 4, Lamar, has a tough matchup against the Denver Broncos on tap for this weekend. This is a situation to monitor closely. If he is inactive vs. the Broncos, the entire Ravens skill corps will take a massive hit in fantasy value.

Baltimore Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson missed Thursday's practice due to an illness.

On Wednesday, Lamar complained about a sore hip, but the missed practice was reportedly due to a stomach bug. There were some concerns when he first surfaced as a surprise non-participant in practice, but fantasy managers can rest assured that it is not an injury keeping him out of practice. Providing he can get over the illness by game time, he should be good to go vs. the Lions. Lamar is our second ranked quarterback for Week 3.

Four days before his potential preseason debut, nearly three weeks before the Ravens’ regular-season opener, Lamar Jackson was locked in. His passing was accurate. His timing was on. His mood was upbeat. Only a handful of presnap penalties on the Ravens’ offensive line and skill position players had soured coach John Harbaugh’s mood.

Related players: Marquise Brown, Miles Boykin, Deon Cain, Sammy Watkins, Rashod Batemon, James Proche II, Devin Duvernay, Tylan Wallace

The story went on to say now Jackson has to find people to throw to. Brown (hamstring), Boykin (hamstring) and Cain continued to rehabilitate from early-camp injuries. Watkins missed his third straight practice. Bateman (groin) remains out until at least September. Proche II sat out his first practice of camp after appearing to tweak his back Monday. That left just two draft picks at the position available — Duvernay (20 catches as a rookie) and Wallace, a rookie this season.

Baltimore Ravens backup quarterback Trace McSorley will miss the rest of the preseason with a back injury.

With McSorley sidelined, Tyler Huntley is now the frontrunner to become the backup quarterback to Lamar Jackson.

McSorley injured his back picking up a box on Saturday, just hours before the Ravens' preseason opener. He played with back spasms, completing 11-of-18 passes for 86 yards and one interception.

Lamar Jackson (COVID-19) hasn't practiced yet and won't return until Friday-Saturday at earliest.

Zrebiec tweeted that much of the Ravens' talk coming into camp was about how this would be an important time to get some momentum with their passing game. That's been tough to do given circumstances, he said.

Lamar Jackson is officially back on the Ravens active roster.

Related players: Robert Griffin III, Trace McSorley

Jackson was activated from the reserve/COVID-19 list on Monday. The move clears the way for Jackson to start Tuesday’s game against the Cowboys. Griffin started in his place last Wednesday, but had to leave the game after hurting his hamstring. McSorley replaced him and will back up Jackson now that Griffin is on injured reserve, the story said.

Ravens QB Lamar Jackson is expected to taken off the Ravens’ COVID list and will start Tuesday against the Cowboys.

Sunday does mark ten days since the Thanksgiving news of Jackson testing positive for COVID and he has obviously recovered well enough to get back on the field. The Ravens have started getting back just about everyone they had sorely missed against the Steelers, including RBs Mark Ingram and J.K. Dobbins. The offense has been struggling as a whole but getting Jackson back is obviously a big boost, especially for a Ravens team fighting for a wild card spot. He currently checks in as our No. 6 quarterback.

Ravens RB J.K. Dobbins and Mark Ingram will now be eligible for Wednesday’s game against the Steelers.

Related players: Gus Edwards, Lamar Jackson, Robert Griffin III

Dobbins and Ingram's 10-day isolation period after positive COVID-19 tests will be over on Wednesday, Pelissero said. Baltimore will still be down a dozen players, including Jackson so it will be a tough task against the Steelers. Dobbins will eat into Edwards' fantasy workload but without Jackson at QB, it could be a heavy dose of the run game with all three Raven RBs.

Ravens QB Lamar Jackson is officially ruled out for Tuesday's game against the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Robert Griffin III will start in place of Jackson.