OWING MILLS, Md. -- Lamar Jackson makes his Monday Night Football debut as the quarterback of the highest-scoring team in the NFL, the newly minted favorite for Most Valuable Player and arguably the league's most popular player.
Any suggestion Jackson would become football's next great young superstar by this point would've drawn laughter one year and one week ago, when he was thrust into the Baltimore Ravens' starting job after Joe Flacco was injured.
In 53 weeks, Jackson went from being a hotly debated question mark to the NFL's ultimate exclamation point.
Jackson has gone from throwing self-described ducks in training camp to sidearming darts just beyond the fingertips of defenders.