Sunday’s game between the Texans and Ravens was built up as a matchup of two MVP candidates in Deshaun Watson and Lamar Jackson. It ended up being the Lamar Jackson show.
The Ravens quarterback followed up his perfect passer rating in Week 10 with a spectacular four-touchdown performance in Baltimore’s 41-7 win against the Texans. That kind of showing also gave Ravens running back Mark Ingram reason to continue his role as Official Lamar Jackson Hype Man.
Late in that Week 10 win against Cincinnati, mic’d-up video showed Ingram leading “MVP” chants for Jackson from the sidelines. On Sunday, though, he took that hype-man role straight to the media. He lobbied for Jackson’s MVP candidacy from the podium at the postgame press conference.
He said:
“The MVP frontrunner. If anybody else got to say something different about that they can come see me. I’m right here in B-More outside The Bank. You got an issue with that, come see me.”
Jackson’s game has been convincing enough on its own, but it doesn’t hurt to have a hype man.
Ingram is excelling in that role.
