Zay Flowers Camp Update — August 23: No News While the Offense Struggled

Zay Flowers had no reported reps this week. He does not appear in Giana Han's joint-practice coverage at The Baltimore Banner or Tony Lombardi's two-day notes at Russell Street Report, and he sat Saturday's 13 to three win over the Vikings with the rest of the veterans, per Quentin Corpuel at the team's site. The thigh contusion from last week — which he had already returned from before the last episode aired — drew no follow-up reporting at all, and he was not listed among the week's absences, so the quiet reads as ordinary veteran handling rather than anything medical.

The one thing worth logging is the environment: the offense he headlines had a rough week, with Brian Flores's Vikings defense winning both joint practice days against the first unit and the second, per Lombardi, and left tackle Ronnie Stanley saying, per Clifton Brown at the team's site, "Things have to be a lot cleaner." No account we can cite says how Flowers fared inside that, and we won't guess.

For a first-time listener, the June preview called Flowers the cleanest profile on this roster — a 30 percent target share last season, 17 games played, with a low touchdown count as the number most likely to move up — and that case was never going to be proved or broken by an August in which he barely appears in print. No contract news surfaced in this window either. What to watch: whether Flowers takes any snaps against Washington on Saturday, the final tune-up before rosters cut to 53 on Sunday, August 30, and any movement on the extension question June left open. We'll check after cut day.

_Data via nflverse._