Lamar Jackson knew exactly what he wanted to show his teammates when the Ravens came off the field at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta. His phone was already out, ready to point them toward the picture of Tyler Huntley’s grin that had started making the rounds.
It was the kind of image that fit Huntley perfectly: head poking up from a pile in the end zone, teeth flashing bright after he pushed in for the go-ahead touchdown on second-and-goal in overtime, capping a seven-minute drive. The smile was the punchline and the point.
“I saw it right after the game, actually. Lamar showed it to me on his phone,” rookie third-string quarterback Joe Fagnano said.
“He showed me, and I started dying laughing. ... Super cool picture.”
“That was funny, though. But that’s ‘Snoop,’” wide receiver Zay Flowers said, using the nickname Huntley picked up in high school because he looked like rapper Snoop Dogg.
“Everybody know he smiling at everything he do. He’s smiling while he getting tackled.”
That easygoing look masks a quarterback the Ravens trust in a big spot. When Jackson can’t play, Huntley has shown he can step in, move the offense and keep Baltimore steady. Derrick Henry had no hesitation backing him up before Huntley’s latest win.
“Turn Green Bay on,” Henry said, pointing to Huntley’s 41-24 victory late last season that kept the Ravens’ playoff hopes alive. In that game, Huntley went 16-for-20 for 107 yards and a touchdown and rushed for 60 yards.
Henry added, “I feel like all last year Snoop did a great job. [I have] all the confidence in him.
He has been here for a while, so he has done it for a long time, so y’all have seen it too.”
Huntley’s Baltimore story has stretched across years and stops elsewhere, but the Ravens keep ending up where he belongs. He came in as an undrafted free agent out of Utah in 2019, and since 2021 he has played 32 games and started 17.
He’s appeared in at least one game every season since then, and five of those seasons have been with Baltimore. He is only the third quarterback since 1990 to start a game in five or more seasons for a team he wasn’t the Week 1 starter for.
With the Ravens, he’s 6-6 as a starter.
There have been rough patches too. His goal-line fumble in the 2022 wild-card round hurt Baltimore badly in its playoff bid against the Cincinnati Bengals.
After the 2023 season, the team moved on from him as its backup and went with 38-year-old Josh Johnson. The Ravens signed Cooper Rush in 2025.
Huntley’s path away from Baltimore bounced around. He signed with the Cleveland Browns in 2024, was released, returned to the Ravens’ practice squad and then signed with the Miami Dolphins. Back in Florida, he made five starts, in the state where he had already flourished as a high school quarterback.
A year younger than Jackson, Huntley knocked Jackson’s Pompano Beach high school team out of the playoffs. Flowers, who grew up in Fort Lauderdale, remembered the buzz around him well.
“He was well known down there because he was one of the best quarterbacks and he had one of the best teams,” Flowers said.
Even with those Florida starts and a short run with Cleveland, Huntley never really found a place like Baltimore. The Dolphins weren’t his NFL home, and Cleveland clearly wasn’t either.
The Browns signed him again in 2025, then cut him again while keeping Joe Flacco, Dillon Gabriel, Kenny Pickett and Shedeur Sanders over him. Huntley wound up back on the Ravens’ practice squad.
He said his mind doesn’t dwell on that stretch, though he added that he “definitely always find my way back here.”
When Jackson went down in Week 4 against the Kansas City Chiefs and Rush struggled against the Houston Texans and Los Angeles Rams, Baltimore turned to Huntley again. He delivered another needed win, beating the Chicago Bears to stop a four-game skid.
The Ravens made that trust official in the offseason with a two-year contract extension.
“I don’t want to see another spot more fitting for Snoop than the Ravens,” Flowers said, even though he and Jackson “feel like Snoop would be a starting quarterback somewhere.”
Fagnano, who is also undrafted, said he’s learned a lot just by watching how Huntley handles himself around the building and on game day. He sees the work Huntley does in practice alongside Jackson, and he’s seen the confidence that settles over the team when Huntley takes over.
“He’s got a winning energy. No matter what’s going on in the game, you still feel like you’re going to win,” Flowers said.
Last Sunday, Huntley once again walked into the huddle with that smile and the same calm that has become part of his identity. Offensive coordinator Declan Doyle summed it up on the behind-the-scenes show “Wired” with one line: “Snoop has like no cortisol in his entire body.
Like none. He’s never had a stress response to anything in his whole life.”
Now he gets another chance, with a second straight win on the line against an AFC North rival that cut him twice.
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