Justice Hill Camp Update — August 16: Named in the Plan While the Rookie Gets the Reps
2026 NFL Season · Monday, Aug 17
Justice Hill was named as the veteran piece of Baltimore's new outside-run scheme this week, but the preseason backfield work went to rookie Adam Randall. The June questions are still the questions.
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Quiet week for Justice Hill, and quiet cuts two ways for him, because the one Ravens back who did make noise was the rookie chasing his role. Adam Randall handled the backfield in Saturday's 24 to seven win over the Eagles, 12 carries for 46 yards and a touchdown, per Ryan Mink at the team site, while Hill produced no game or practice stat lines in this week's reporting at all.
The June preview, for those just meeting him: we said Hill's value lives in a specific job, the passing-down back behind Derrick Henry, and that the job was real. 21 catches in 10 games last season before a neck injury ended his year in November. We said the role was the asset and the body was the question, since no dated medical clearance on the neck had been reported, and we named Randall, drafted this spring, as the long-term threat to the third-down snaps.
The week's evidence, thin as it is, tilts mildly friendly. James Dudko at Heavy reported that new coordinator Declan Doyle's outside-run-heavy scheme casts Hill as the versatile veteran supporting Henry, named alongside Randall. Being in the plan matters. On the health front, the freshest word is older than this window: back on July fifteenth, Clifton Brown's team-site preview described Hill as fully healthy through offseason work and the clear backup, a runner, pass-catcher, and blocker. Nothing since has contradicted that, and nothing since has tested it either, because Hill sat with the veterans Saturday while Randall played.
Does the June read hold? UNCHANGED, which for Hill is roughly the good version. He is healthy by the last honest report, named in the new scheme, and still faces the same rookie who just used the preseason opener to look competent. Nothing this week settled the split.
The checks for next week are the same ones June set: whether Hill gets passing-down and third-down work in the joint practices with the Vikings Tuesday and Wednesday, and how the snaps divide between him and Randall in Saturday's game in Minneapolis. We'll check next Sunday.
_Data via nflverse._
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