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Arthur Jones, who won a Super Bowl with the Ravens, dies at 39

by admin October 4, 2025

OWINGS MILLS, Md. — Arthur Jones, a defensive lineman who spent his first four NFL seasons in Baltimore and won a Super Bowl with the Ravens, has died. He was 39.

Syracuse, Jones’ alma mater, said he died Friday morning. The school and the Ravens didn’t give a cause of death in their announcements.

“Arthur’s presence was a gift to everyone he encountered,” Ravens general manager Eric DeCosta said. “His big, bright smile, infectious energy and eternal positivity created a presence that continuously uplifted others.”

Jones was a fifth-round draft pick in 2010 and had 8½ of his 10 career sacks in a two-season stretch in 2012-13. The Ravens beat San Francisco in Super Bowl XLVII to cap the 2012 season.

Jones sacked 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick just before a power outage at the Superdome in New Orleans. He also had a fumble recovery in that Super Bowl.

“My heart is heavy today after the loss of Art Jones,” Ravens coach John Harbaugh said. “Art was a truly remarkable person, a dedicated teammate, a relentless worker, and someone any coach would be proud to lead. His love for life, generous spirit, and radiant smile left a lasting impression on everyone fortunate enough to know him.

“He had a genuine gift for connecting with people, bringing joy to the locker room and beyond, and his presence was a source of light within our team and the Baltimore community.”

Jones also spent two years with Indianapolis and a final season in Washington in 2017.

Jones played for Syracuse and was the older brother of former UFC heavyweight champion Jon Jones and former Syracuse and NFL defensive end Chandler Jones, a four-time Pro Bowler who won a Super Bowl in New England.

Jones had 38½ tackles for loss at Syracuse, a school record for an interior defensive lineman. He was a first-team All-Big East selection each of his final two seasons.

“Arthur Jones was a tremendous player and even better person,” Syracuse athletic director John Wildhack said. “We were fortunate that Arthur continued to support our football program after his playing career. He impacted many of our student-athletes, always with a smile and uplifting message.”

ESPN’s Jamison Hensley contributed to this report.

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Derrick Henry apologetic after costly fumble in Ravens loss

by admin September 23, 2025

Jamison HensleySep 23, 2025, 01:46 AM ET
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BALTIMORE — Running back Derrick Henry let out his frustration after another costly fourth-quarter fumble by slamming his helmet into the bench on the sideline.

By the time Henry reached the locker room, he appeared in shock at how his third fumble in three games played a pivotal role in the Baltimore Ravens’ 38-30 loss to the Detroit Lions on Monday night.

“I’m at a loss for words,” Henry said. “This sucks right now. I ain’t going to lie to y’all.”

With Baltimore trailing 28-24 midway through the fourth quarter, Henry got the ball punched from behind by Lions defensive end Aidan Hutchinson at his own 16-yard line and the Lions converted the turnover into a field goal. This marked Henry’s second fumble in the fourth quarter this season — both of which came in the Ravens’ losses this season.

These ball security problems are uncharacteristic for Henry. In his previous nine seasons, he had lost two fourth-quarter fumbles in 136 games.

Henry apologized to his teammates, coaches and fans.

“It’s just crazy,” Henry said. “Three fumbles [in three games] straight. I’m trying every day to fix the problem that just keeps occurring. I’m my worst critic, so I’m not going to try to beat myself up too much. But it’s hard not to when it’s consecutive and consistent [instances] of me doing the same thing.”

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Ravens coach John Harbaugh doesn’t believe this will continue to be an issue for Henry.

“That was kind of a blind shot there,” Harbaugh said. “I thought he had the ball in good position. Still, we just want to protect the football; all our guys do, and we have to do it. We have to be good at it.”

Henry, 31, is one of the most accomplished running backs in NFL history. He currently ranks 18th on the league’s all-time rushing list with 11,665 yards and is sixth with 109 rushing touchdowns.

But Henry was held to 50 yards rushing on Monday night after being limited to 24 yards rushing in a win over the Cleveland Browns on Sept. 14. The Ravens (1-2) now head on a short week to play at Kansas City, where Baltimore is 0-3 against Patrick Mahomes.

“Adversity is rough right now,” Henry said. “But as long as we stay focused — and everybody else will stay focused — we’ll try to turn this thing around. I know we will.”

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Rushing attack, pass rush help Lions defeat Ravens on road

by admin September 23, 2025

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Sep 22, 2025, 11:31 PM ET

BALTIMORE — The Detroit Lions used a revitalized pass rush and a punishing rushing attack to defeat the Baltimore Ravens 38-30 at M&T Bank Stadium on Monday night.

David Montgomery ran for 151 yards and two touchdowns for the Lions (2-1), who rushed for 224 yards. Detroit also had two touchdown drives of 96 or more yards and sacked Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson seven times.

Jackson threw for 288 yards and three touchdowns for the Ravens (1-2), who suffered another costly fumble by veteran running back Derrick Henry.

Here are the most important things to know from Monday night for both teams:

David Montgomery ran for 151 yards and two touchdowns to help the Lions to a big road win. Nick Wass/AP

Detroit had never won against the Ravens in Baltimore — until now.

In their four previous trips, most recently in 2023, the Lions had never tasted victory — or come within nine points of it. But that changed Monday, as the Lions offense got off to a quick start, spearheaded by veteran QB Jared Goff, and their playmakers put on a show.

Running backs Jahmyr Gibbs and Montgomery, along with All-Pro WR Amon-Ra St. Brown, all scored touchdowns. That marked the 10th career game in which they each recorded at least one scrimmage TD, the most such games by any trio of teammates in NFL history, per ESPN Research.

After dropping their Week 1 game at Green Bay, Detroit has now won its last two games in impressive fashion.

Most surprising performance: DE Al-Quadin Muhammad. Hours before kickoff, the Lions placed starting defensive end Marcus Davenport on injured reserve with a chest injury. Muhammad stepped up in a major way against the Ravens with 2.5 sacks, boosting a Detroit pass rush that registered a league-low 19.2% pass rush win rate in the first two weeks. The 30-year-old Muhammad is on his fifth NFL team and in his second season with the Lions after working his way up from the practice squad in 2024.

Trend to watch: The Lions have allowed an opening-drive touchdown in all three games this season under new defensive coordinator Kelvin Sheppard, with Henry scoring on a 28-yard rushing touchdown with 5:47 left in the first quarter. Per ESPN Research, this is the first time Detroit has allowed an opening-drive TD in three consecutive games under coach Dan Campbell, dating to 2021. It also marked the first time in the past 25 years that the Lions allowed an opening-drive touchdown in the first three games of a season. The defense regrouped after the opening-drive score, sacking Jackson a career high seven times.

Stat to know: When Montgomery capped off a 98-yard scoring drive with a goal-line touchdown at 5:57 in the second quarter, he and teammate Gibbs had their first historical moment. Gibbs and Montgomery, aka “Sonic & Knuckles,” each recorded a touchdown in the same game for the 11th time, breaking a tie with the Packers’ Paul Hornung and Jim Taylor and the 49ers’ Hugh McElhenny and Joe Perry for the most such games by any running back tandem. — Eric Woodyard

Next game: vs. Cleveland Browns (Sunday, 1 p.m. ET)

Derrick Henry scored an early touchdown, but a late fumble set the Ravens back. AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough

Henry’s uncharacteristic poor ball security cost the Ravens again. Henry fumbled midway through the fourth quarter, which proved to be biggest mistake in the Ravens’ loss to the Lions. He showed his frustration by slamming his helmet into the bench. Henry has lost the ball in the fourth quarter in both of Baltimore’s losses this season. This has been unlike Henry, who had lost two rushing fumbles in the fourth quarter or overtime in his previous nine seasons.

Defensively, the Ravens allowed touchdown drives of 98 and 96 yards to the Lions, but this isn’t the first time Baltimore has given up these types of marathon drives. The last team to allow multiple 95-yard touchdown drives on Monday Night Football was the Ravens, who did so against the Texans in 2010, according to ESPN Research.

Baltimore has a losing record after three games for just the third time in coach John Harbaugh’s 18 seasons as head coach. The Ravens, whose 111 points are the most in the first three games for a team with a losing record in NFL history, now head to play at Kansas City (1-2), where they have never beaten Patrick Mahomes. Since 2008, Baltimore is 0-3 at Arrowhead Stadium, allowing an average of 29 points per game.

Trend to watch: Lamar Jackson’s touchdown passes of 3 yards to wide receiver Rashod Bateman and 14 to tight end Mark Andrews helped the quarterback set a team record. This marked Jackson’s ninth straight game with two or more touchdown passes, which surpasses Vinny Testaverde’s streak of eight in 1996. It’s also the longest active streak of multiple touchdown-pass games in the league.

Most surprising performance: Andrews looked like Jackson’s favorite target again after the slowest start to a season in his eight-year career. Andrews caught six passes for 91 yards and two touchdowns. It had been a struggle this season for Andrews, who totaled two receptions for seven yards in the first two games. That slow start followed the playoff loss in Buffalo, where he dropped a late 2-point conversion pass that would have tied the game.

Stat to know: Jackson had little room to scramble and got sacked seven times, the most of his career. Baltimore has lost three of the four games in which Jackson has been sacked at least five times. — Jamison Hensley

Next game: at Kansas City Chiefs (Sunday, 4:25 p.m. ET)

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The Blood Ravens’ Chapter Master Gabriel Angelos won’t be in Dawn of War 4 so it can focus on relatively ‘normal’ heroes instead

by admin September 1, 2025

Jan Theysen, creative director of Dawn of War 4 at King Art Games, recently told IGN that Dawn of War’s original protagonist Gabriel Angelos won’t be returning for their sequel. “That was actually one of the decisions we made relatively early. We don’t want Gabriel Angelos in the game,” he said.

Gabriel Angelos was the star of the story campaign in the original Dawn of War, though he didn’t feature in all of the sequels and expansions. If you played Dark Crusade as the Blood Ravens they were commanded by Davian Thule, and in Soulstorm by Indrick Boreale. For Dawn of War 2 you played a nameless force commander known only as “Commander,” though Angelos did eventually appear at the head of your reinforcements, and took over in Dawn of War 3—though the less said about that the better.

“For us, he felt a little bit overpowered,” Theysen said. “It’s a little bit weird to have either this slightly overpowered character from the beginning of the game, which is a little bit off, or you have to do, ‘Oh, well, he lost his memory and he lost all his power,’ which is also a weird trope.”

The trailer for Dawn of War 4 does show the return of other Blood Ravens. It’s narrated by Scout Sergeant Cyrus, who seems to die at the end—though if he stays that way I’ll be shocked. (He probably crosses the Rubicon Primaris, though if he became a dreadnought that would be neat too.) The chapter’s Chief Librarian Jonah Orion is back as well.

“We basically said we want more ‘normal’ heroes,” Theysen explained. “So we have Cyrus and we have Jonah coming back, but they’re all, power level-wise, more similar to normal units.”

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Which is neat. Dawn of War 4 does seem like it’s toning down the disparity between wildly OP characters and paper-thin troops in Dawn of War 3 to return to something more like the original, where your heroes were badass, but if you didn’t keep an eye on them could suddenly find themselves in a world of hurt.

As our Fraser Brown said after a few hours going hands-on with Dawn of War 4, “Blood Ravens—even their Terminators—ain’t immortal. The relentless green tide can whittle them down, and the orks have some mean machines that can crack open space marines like tins of beans.”

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Ravens’ undrafted rookies have emotional reactions to making 53-man roster

by admin August 28, 2025

Jamison HensleyAug 27, 2025, 07:25 PM ET
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OWINGS MILLS, Md. — Jay Higgins IV, an undrafted inside linebacker out of Iowa, was eating lunch in the Baltimore Ravens’ cafeteria on Tuesday when he got a tap on his shoulder. Ravens general manager Eric DeCosta wanted to talk with him.

It was the day when Baltimore had to cut its roster down to 53 players, and Higgins felt his heart rate rising as he walked down the hall to DeCosta’s office. When DeCosta broke the news that he made the Ravens roster, Higgins just bent over with his head facing the floor.

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“I was just lightheaded when he told me,” Higgins said after Wednesday’s practice. “I was so surprised.”

Higgins’ reaction was among the highlights of a Ravens video that captured the reactions of three undrafted rookies who overcame the steep challenge of making an NFL 53-man roster. In a span of four months, Higgins, cornerback Keyon Martin and safety Reuben Lowery went from the dejection of not getting selected in the NFL draft to the joy of landing a spot on a Super Bowl contender’s roster.

Higgins’ family put the video in a group chat. Inside linebackers coach Tyler Santucci played the video in the meeting room.

“We were celebrating everybody, just to see the surprise in our faces and just how happy we were,” Higgins said.

Martin’s road was the toughest one of them all. Coming from Louisiana-Lafayette, he had no offers after he went undrafted and he received one call for a tryout.

“It was pretty hard on me. I’m not going to lie, coming out right after the draft, realizing that nobody was going to sign me,” Martin said. “But once I got that call about the [Ravens] rookie minicamp, I’m like, all right, ‘It’s on me now.’ So I knew that if I wanted to come in and do what I really wanted to do in the NFL, I just had to come out here and prove it.”

In the second preseason game, Martin recorded a safety. In the third one, he returned an interception for a touchdown.

“Every day I step in this building, I know that I’m beating the odds,” Martin said. “So I’m just enjoying the journey really.”

Dreams becoming a reality.

Eric DeCosta surprises three undrafted rookies with news they made the 53-man roster. 🥹 🥹 pic.twitter.com/8Rf2shoQoz

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What the Ravens’ cameras didn’t capture was an exchange between Martin and Lowery on a stairwell. Lowery was walking down after being told the good news that he made the team, and Martin was heading up to DeCosta’s office.

“We didn’t even have to say any words. It was just a big hug,” Lowery said. “It was like a movie moment, honestly.”

Lowery still remembers how he waited an hour after the draft ended to get his only call from an NFL team. The Ravens offered him a one-year deal that included no signing bonus.

But Lowery hasn’t had time to appreciate the moment that he made the Ravens.

“It is hard to wrap your mind around honestly right now because your brain, especially in camp, has been so focused on working, working, working, working,” Lowery said. “But one day, I’m going to definitely look back on it and be like, ‘Wow, this is insane.'”

Lowery was on the dean’s list at Tennessee-Chattanooga and has a degree in mechanical engineering. So, was it tougher to get his degree or make the Ravens?

“That’s a good question,” Lowery said. “I would say [the Ravens], just because it’s a new atmosphere, it’s new people. Mechanical engineering is hard, but you just go into a classroom every day and you figure it out. But ‘Play like a Raven’ means something here.”

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