Baltimore Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson took home his second NFL MVP award in 2023, becoming just the 11th player in league history to win the honor multiple times.
Jackson has become one of the faces of the NFL and a household name. With Jackson becoming one of the NFL’s best players, many fans have wanted to learn more about his personal life, including his relationship. Let’s delve into Jackson’s dating life and whether he has a significant other.
Who Is Lamar Jackson’s Girlfriend?
Jackson is dating Jamie Taylor, and they have been together for quite some time.
Jackson and Taylor first met at Boynton Beach Community High School in Boynton Beach, Fla. She was three years his junior, but the two reunited at the University of Louisville.
You could refer to them as high school sweethearts, but you’d be chronologically incorrect. They started dating in 2017, around the time of Jackson’s final collegiate football season with the Cardinals.
Jackson and Taylor are also proud parents. The couple welcomed a little girl, Milan, into the world in 2021. That wasn’t common knowledge until months later when the star QB posted a picture of the little girl dressed up adorably in her Halloween garb.
Taylor’s Occupation and Work Location
Taylor is reportedly a groomer in the Los Angeles area who has worked with massive brands like Vanity Fair, Esquire, GQ, Rolling Stone, and Vogue, as well as renowned celebrity photographers Annie Leibovitz, Steven Klein, and Richard Burbridge.
Jackson and Taylor have largely managed to keep their private lives out of the spotlight, but she did speak about how Jackson impacted her during a 2019 interview with Clifton Brown for the Ravens’ team website.
“He’s taught me how to handle criticism,” Taylor said. “I mean, I used to get mad when I’d read stuff. Then I’d look at him, and he’s just fine. He says, ‘Let them do the talking. You don’t have to say anything. Just show them.'”
Bills vs. Ravens: Week 1, Preview and Prediction
We all know the headline for this one. Jackson and Allen are the last two MVP winners and two of the most entertaining quarterbacks ever to play the game. They lead two of the best teams in the league that have yet to get over the Super Bowl hump.
This might be the most entertaining regular-season matchup possible in today’s NFL, and the league gave the fans a gift by making this the Week One Sunday Night game. But as otherworldly as the two starting quarterbacks are, recent matchups between the two teams have come down to the other players.
In last year’s 35-10 Ravens Sunday Night demolition of Buffalo, Lamar Jackson played as much of a supporting role as a quarterback who averaged 0.39 EPA/Play while accounting for three total touchdowns. Derrick Henry started off the game with an 87-yard touchdown run on the first play and finished with 199 yards rushing.
As a team, Baltimore ran the ball 34 times for 271 yards, while Lamar Jackson threw the ball just 19 times. The Bills had similar difficulties stopping the Ravens in the playoffs, relying largely on turnovers and self-inflicted Ravens wounds to win.
Defense was a bigger issue for the Bills last year, as a unit that had typically been towards the top of the league in the Allen era took a step backwards to being just slightly above average, finishing 12th in EPA/Play. The Bills aggressively worked on improving that side of the ball in the offseason, using their five draft picks on defense while bringing in veterans Tre’Davious White and Joey Bosa to help provide stability.
But first-round cornerback Maxwell Hairston is on the injured reserve, leaving the cornerback room outside of All-Pro Christian Benford a major question mark.
On the other side of the ball, Buffalo relied largely on the running game to move the ball in the playoff win. Ravens Defensive Coordinator Zachary Orr called perhaps his best game of the year in the Week Four matchup, with his simulated pressures and disguised blitzes on passing downs holding Buffalo to just 3-13 on third down. The Bills wanted to stay out of third-and-long, and figured the best way to do so was by taking advantage of their elite offensive line.
The fact that neither quarterback has unveiled their full share of magic tricks in recent matchups makes projecting this matchup difficult, as both are liable to do so at any given moment. In many ways, the Ravens vs Bills matchup is an unfinished product, waiting to reach its highest potential.
With the caveat that either quarterback can put on the Superman cape and win the game themselves, the rest of Baltimore’s roster is better than Buffalo’s. The only matchup where the Bills might have an advantage is their offensive line against the Ravens’ defensive front.
What’s more, the Ravens have the benefit of having more defensive continuity early in the season. While a Josh Allen superhero performance or a Ravens implosion are possible, Baltimore has more paths to winning this game than Buffalo.
Prediction: Ravens 27 – Bills 24
