Zay Flowers Ruled Out This Week as Hamstring Keeps Him Sidelined

Zay Flowers has been downgraded to Out for the Ravens' upcoming game, confirming he won't return from his left hamstring injury this week. The injury occurred on September 13, meaning Flowers is now approximately one week into a recovery window the literature puts at 1–6 weeks for Grade 1–2 hamstring strains — with the grade still inferred from reporting rather than confirmed by imaging. At one week elapsed, he sits at the very early edge of even a best-case Grade 1 recovery floor, so an Out designation for this game is entirely consistent with the biology. The concern with hamstring strains in skill players like Flowers isn't just the initial healing — it's the reinjury risk when return is rushed before tissue tensile strength is fully restored. An Out ruling this week doesn't tell us much about the broader trajectory, but it does confirm the Ravens aren't compressing the timeline. Watch for practice participation designations mid-week next week as the key signal for whether Flowers is trending toward an early return or tracking deeper into the window.