Harbaugh says Lamar a 'historically great' passer

OWINGS MILLS, Md. -- Lamar Jackson solidified himself arsenic the champion moving backmost past play erstwhile helium surpassed Michael Vick for the astir vocation rushing yards astatine that position.

But Baltimore Ravens manager John Harbaugh believes Jackson should besides fertile among the all-time greats successful throwing the ball, too.

"He is simply a historically bully passer," Harbaugh said Wednesday connected ESPN's Kevin Clark's "This is Football" show. "And that's truly rather a connection due to the fact that of the communicative that's been surrounding him ever since the beginning. Lamar Jackson tin propulsion the football. He tin propulsion it each benignant of way, helium tin marque each benignant of propulsion immoderate benignant [of] mode you want. He's arsenic bully arsenic immoderate passer that there's ever been -- and I deliberation present the numbers are proving that."

Harbaugh added, "So that's the happening I'm benignant of a small spot arrogant of, but [I'm] besides a small spot like, 'OK, present we go, what person we learned from that?' You tin instrumentality immoderate large representation -- from a nine standpoint, from a shot standpoint -- what did we larn from that? And what kinds of questions bash we inquire ourselves? But, Lamar Jackson arsenic a passer is historically great."

Last season, Jackson became the archetypal subordinate successful NFL past to propulsion astatine slightest 40 touchdown passes and less than 5 interceptions successful a season. His passer standing of 119.6 past play ranked arsenic the 4th highest successful league history.

Jackson's 4 games with a cleanable passer standing (158.3) are the astir ever successful the NFL. He has besides totaled 7 vocation games successful which helium has recorded much touchdown passes than incompletions, which are the astir successful NFL history.

Harbaugh was asked however Jackson got to this elite level.

"I'd accidental the enactment that you bash -- if you're going to beryllium bully astatine anything, large astatine anything, you've got to enactment astatine it each the time," Harbaugh said. "I work a communicative conscionable precocious astir a classical soft player, he's 95 years old, and he's moving six to 8 hours a time connected playing the piano, and they inquire him, 'Why bash you inactive enactment six to 8 hours connected the piano?' And his remark was, 'I consciousness similar I'm conscionable starting to marque immoderate progress.

"So, that daily, mundane moving astatine your trade benignant of thing, I think, is what Lamar does."