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OWINGS MILLS Tavon Young Jersey 2019 , Md. (AP) — fense on the final day of the NFL draft Saturday, selecting speedy running back Justice Hill and guard Ben Powers in the fourth round.Later, general manager Eric DeCosta capped the Ravens’ draft by taking Penn State quarterback Trace McSorley in the sixth round, No. 197 overall.Taken 113th overall, Hill ran for 3,539 yards and scored 31 touchdowns in three seasons at Oklahoma State. The 6-foot-4, 310-pound Powers was a three-year starter at Oklahoma.Baltimore also selected Southern Cal cornerback Iman Lewis-Marshall with a fourth-round pick secured from Philadelphia earlier in the draft.The 5-10 White Matt Skura Jersey , 200-pound Hill ran a 4.40 in the 40-yard dash, fastest among running backs at the NFL combine. He scored 31 touchdowns in three seasons and averaged 5.6 yards per carry.Ravens scouting director Joe Hortiz said, “It’s a chance to add more speed to this offense. … He makes guys look bad in space.”Hill joins a backfield led by quarterback Lamar Jackson and featuring free agent pickup Mark Ingram and Gus Edwards, who led the Ravens in rushing last year.Lewis-Marshall was a four-year starter for the Trojans. In the 1978 NFL season, the New England Patriots rushed for an NFL-record 3,165 yards. That has been referred to as the record that will never be broken, because the NFL has evolved into a passing league Matt Skura Jersey 2019 , and teams simply don’t run like that anymore.Until the Lamar Jackson-led Baltimore Ravens.Since Jackson became the Ravens’ starting quarterback, the Ravens are rushing like no other team in NFL history. Jackson has been the Ravens’ starter for five games, and the Ravens have totaled 1,152 rushing yards, a ridiculous average of 230.4 yards a game. If a team did that for a full 16-game season, it would total 3,686 rushing yards and obliterate the 1978 Patriots’ “unbreakable” record by more than 500 yards.In the nine games with Joe Flacco as the starting quarterback Stitched Sam Koch Jersey , the Ravens totaled just 834 rushing yards. That’s an average of 93.7 yards a game, well below the league average.In the five games Jackson has started, he’s fifth in the NFL in rushing, with 427 yards. Just ahead of him, fourth in the NFL in rushing over the last five games, is Ravens running back Gus Edwards, with 486 yards. Edwards was a little-known undrafted rookie until Jackson took over as the starting quarterback Youth Sam Koch Jersey , but the two of them have worked together wonderfully, with defenses never sure whether Jackson is going to keep the ball himself or give it to Edwards.The average NFL team rushes for 114.7 yards a game this season. In the five games Jackson has started, the Ravens have rushed for 267, 242, 207, 194 and 242 yards. The Ravens’ rushing performance with Jackson as the starter was 80 yards better than the NFL average game. Meanwhile, when Flacco was the starter Stitched Brandon Williams Jersey , the Ravens’ rushing performance was 123 yards.This might not be sustainable: Jackson has 86 rushing attempts in his five games as a starter, and there are valid reasons to doubt that an NFL offense can revolve around its quarterback running the ball that often. But through five games, what Jackson and the Ravens’ offense are doing is remarkable.