The Baltimore Ravens found a particular player in running back Keaton Mitchell. The undrafted rookie out of East Carolina made a name for himself on the field for Baltimore this season but suffered a season-ending ACL tear in Week 15 against the Jacksonville Jaguars.
Losing Mitchell will be challenging for the Ravens as they embark on what hopefully will be a Super Bowl journey, but it won’t be impossible to overcome his absence. Baltimore head coach John Harbaugh was asked how Mitchell’s injury would impact the offense, and he was honest in his assessment.
“Well, we’re going to run our offense. It’ll be our offense with the guys we have. The plays that [Keaton Mitchell] was running, the other guys can run. Everybody puts their own fingerprint on the play. The play looks the way it does a lot of times because the guys running it. That’s really the personality of a play – everybody runs similar plays, but not all of them look the same. So, the guys running it will put their flair onto it, and obviously it will be … We’re going to miss Keaton. He’s a great player, a great guy, one of the young guys [and] kind of a revelation. He’ll continue to be that when he comes back, and the other guys will get their chance, and they’ll go get the job done.”
