Philadelphia at Baltimore

Jalen Hurts hasn't played in a Sirianni-coached preseason game in years, and Saturday won't be the exception, while Lamar Jackson is out for the first time since 2021 as new Baltimore head coach Jesse Minter reserves his established players for joint practices instead. That leaves Philadelphia's backup battle between Andy Dalton and Tanner McKee to run the show, with rookie Cole Payton waiting for a look late, while Baltimore turns to some combination of Tyler Huntley, Skylar Thompson, and Joe Fagnano. None of those six passers is auditioning to protect a scheme, they're auditioning to make a 53-man roster, and that's the group of players actually taking the field Saturday night. Backup-heavy football like this tends to run loose: unfamiliar quarterback and offensive-line combinations, defenses full of camp bodies who haven't practiced together, and players pressing for a job rather than playing it safe. That combination inflates preseason scoring more often than it tightens a game up. Back the OVER Saturday night.