Tyler Huntley has made a habit of making the Ravens believe when the situation looks cooked.
Baltimore was staring at an 8-point deficit with a little more than two minutes left, a spot that usually ends the conversation. Instead, the Ravens found a way to tie it in the fourth quarter and finish the job in overtime, turning what looked impossible into a comeback win.
The numbers around the situation only made it look worse. CBS Sports’ Doug Clawson pointed out that teams had lost 581 straight games when trailing by 8 or more points in the final minute.
The last team to pull it off before the Ravens was the 2022 Arizona Cardinals against the Las Vegas Raiders. Baltimore did it with its backup quarterback.
Don’t confuse backup with placeholder, though. Huntley has already built a track record for rising into these moments, and he added another chapter in Week 5.
Last season, he became something close to a folk hero in Baltimore. His Week 8 win over the Chicago Bears helped shift the season’s momentum, and his Week 17 victory over the Green Bay Packers kept the Ravens alive in the playoff chase until the final day.
That trust was on display again after the Falcons game, when teammates and coaches made it clear exactly how they see him.
“Snoop [Huntley] is one of the coolest dudes; he doesn’t really get rattled,” Jesse Minter said. “There’s not a locker room in the NFL that has more confidence in their backup quarterback than our guys have in Snoop.”
“Snoop balled out. Told y’all,” Derrick Henry said.
“I’m with him every day, I see him at practice, I see how he works. It ain’t different for us.
We know Snoop is gonna go out there and do his thing.”
Huntley’s final three quarters told the story. He led both the drive that tied the game and the one that won it, threw for three touchdowns, and avoided turnovers while Atlanta was on its heels.
His arm may not give Baltimore the same kind of fireworks Lamar Jackson does, but that’s not really the point here. Huntley offers enough as a passer, brings value on the ground, and keeps the offense on schedule. He also put Derrick Henry, Zay Flowers, and Rashod Bateman in position to make plays on Sunday.
That was enough to finish a comeback that had the Ravens down and out - until Huntley made it look routine.
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