The Ravens will be without cornerback Marlon Humphrey for at least one game, as he had a pin inserted into his finger, Head Coach John Harbaugh announced Wednesday.
On his podcast, “The Marlon Humphrey Show,” Humphrey told the story of how he dislocated his finger in last Friday's practice.
"I was just like, 'Oh, my finger's sideways. Let me just [pop it back in],' because I did it during the play, so I just finagled it back straight," Humphrey said. "Then I'm practicing, I'm like, 'Yo, my finger is like clicking still. [The trainers] are like, 'Oh, let me do it,' and then they put it back in place and it's just not staying."
Humphrey said the team's medical staff suggested examining it inside the team's medical area, but Humphrey told them he wanted to finish practice.
Humphrey still played in Sunday's game in Minnesota with essentially a cast wrapped around his left hand, and it didn't stop him from making his first interception of the season.
Without Humphrey, Baltimore could bump up the snaps for veteran cornerback Chidobe Awuzie, who is coming off one of his best games of the season in Minnesota. With Kyle Hamilton playing more in the slot, Humphrey has shifted more outside.
Awuzie played 60% of the Ravens' defensive snaps against the Vikings but started the first four games of the season and could so again.
"'Chido' has been doing great," Harbaugh said. "He's been playing really well, and he's just a really, really, really, really good football player. He knows how to play, and you see it. … I'm sure glad he is on our team."
The Ravens could also lean more on rookie slot cornerback Keyon Martin, who is one of many rookies who have benefited from getting extensive playing time earlier this season when Baltimore was heavily injured.
The undrafted rookie started the Ravens' Week 5 game against the Texans, played 70% of the defensive snaps, and made five tackles. Martin stepped in for Humphrey on the Ravens' final defensive series in Minnesota and made three tackles.
"Everything he's done, he's done really well," Harbaugh said. "He had an opportunity to start a game or two there. I thought that was a great learning experience for him, and he was out there making plays. … He'll have an opportunity – it looks like – to do some things in this game."