2021 Baltimore Ravens season

2021 Baltimore Ravens season
OwnerSteve Bisciotti
General managerEric DeCosta
Head coachJohn Harbaugh
Offensive coordinatorGreg Roman
Defensive coordinatorDon Martindale
Home fieldM&T Bank Stadium
Results
Record8–9
Division place4th AFC North
Playoff finishDid not qualify
Pro Bowlers
AP All-Pros
3
Team MVPMark Andrews
Uniform

The 2021 season was the Baltimore Ravens' 26th season in the National Football League (NFL) and their 14th under head coach John Harbaugh.

Several NFL records were broken or achieved by the Ravens this season. On August 23, the Baltimore Ravens and John Harbaugh claimed the record of consecutive preseason wins with 20, overtaking Vince Lombardi’s Green Bay Packers record with a win over the Washington Football Team.[1] On September 26, placekicker Justin Tucker broke the NFL record for the longest field goal in history, kicking a 66-yard field goal as time expired to beat the Detroit Lions 19–17.[2] The next week, on October 3, the Ravens tied the record for most consecutive games rushing over 100 yards as a team with 43 (tied with their division rival Steelers) in a 23–7 win over the Denver Broncos.

However, despite starting the season 8–3, the Ravens suffered a late-season collapse, ending the season with a brutal six game losing streak in which five of the losses were by a combined 8 points, including two of the five losses as a result of a failed two-point conversion late in the fourth quarter, and failed to improve on their 11–5 record from last season after a Week 15 loss to the Green Bay Packers. The Ravens also suffered their first losing season since 2015, finished last place in the AFC North for the first time since 2007, and failed to qualify for the postseason for the first time since 2017 after a loss to the Steelers in Week 18. It was the first time in the Lamar Jackson era that the Ravens failed to qualify for the postseason.[3]

The Ravens suffered many injuries to key players throughout the season, including losing J. K. Dobbins, Gus Edwards, Justice Hill, L. J. Fort, and Marcus Peters to season-ending injuries before the regular season started, and losing Ronnie Stanley, Marlon Humphrey, Derek Wolfe, DeShon Elliott and more during the season, while quarterback Lamar Jackson missed the final four games of the season due to an ankle injury.[4] The Ravens ended the season with a league high 19 players on injured reserve. The year was also only the second in Ravens history to not have a Pro Bowler on defense, with the other being 2005.

  1. ^ "Ravens secure NFL record 20th-straight preseason win". Ravens Wire. August 29, 2021. Retrieved September 20, 2021.
  2. ^ "Ravens' Tucker wins game on record 66-yard FG". ESPN.com. September 26, 2021. Retrieved September 29, 2021.
  3. ^ Hensley, Jamison (January 13, 2022). "A rare free fall: Ravens went from No. 1 seed to out of playoffs in six weeks". ESPN.com. Retrieved July 26, 2022.
  4. ^ "Decimated By COVID-19 and Injuries, Ravens Defense Is Playing 'Squid Games'". www.baltimoreravens.com. Retrieved December 27, 2021.

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