The Baltimore Ravens drafted wide receiver Zay Flowers in the first round of the 2023 draft. The rookie has certainly exceeded expectations in his first year as a professional, already becoming the team’s top wide receiver while showing his explosiveness and big-play ability alongside his electricity.
There are plenty of ways to get Flowers the ball in order to utilize his abilities, and Baltimore has done just that. When asked about how he envisions using Flowers as the 2023 NFL season continues, offensive coordinator Todd Monken discussed the deep passing game as well as getting the ball to him in space.
“We’re always trying to look for opportunities for [Zay Flowers] and some of our other players to get the ball down the field; sometimes it [doesn’t] present itself. The other night, he was certainly in some of those pockets. [On] some of the plays we may have checked the ball down, we were trying to get him down the field. He’s a guy you’re trying to get the ball to in a number of ways. Where there is space, that’s good for him. Certainly, putting it down the field … To me, the biggest thing is how do you get him the ball in space? It’s not even so much down the field as where can you get him where he’s hard to bring down? He can turn a short pass into an explosive [play], so those are the things that we’re constantly trying to work through, as [we are] with all of our skill players.”