There’s no spot ‘more fitting’ for Tyler ‘Snoop’ Huntley than the Ravens

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Lamar Jackson was ready as soon as his teammates ran off the field at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta.

He had his phone out, eager to share the joy of backup quarterback Tyler Huntley’s grin, which was quickly going viral.

On second-and-goal in overtime, after quarterbacking a seven-minute drive, Huntley pushed into the end zone for the go-ahead touchdown in overtime. Resting against the red grass of the end zone, his head emerged from the pile, his teeth gleaming bright through the shadows cast by his helmet.

“I saw it right after the game, actually. Lamar showed it to me on his phone,” rookie third-string quarterback Joe Fagnano said. “He showed me, and I started dying laughing. ... Super cool picture.”

“That was funny, though. But that’s ‘Snoop,’” added wide receiver Zay Flowers, using a nickname Huntley got in high school for his resemblance to rapper Snoop Dogg. “Everybody know he smiling at everything he do. He’s smiling while he getting tackled.”

Huntley’s teammates were just as unsurprised that he guided them to a win. His scrambling ability and poise in the pocket make him the perfect guy to take the keys of the offense when the Ravens’ most important player can’t go.

Star running back Derrick Henry, who has taken on a bigger role when the team is without Jackson, doesn’t hesitate to give Huntley his flowers.

“Turn Green Bay on,” Henry pointed out before Huntley’s latest victory, referring to a 41-24 win late last season that kept the Ravens’ playoff hopes alive. Huntley, who arrived in Baltimore in 2019 as an undrafted free agent out of Utah, went 16-for-20 for 107 yards and a touchdown and added 60 yards on the ground. “I feel like all last year Snoop did a great job. [I have] all the confidence in him. He has been here for a while, so he has done it for a long time, so y’all have seen it too.”

Since 2021, Huntley’s second year in the league, he has played 32 games and started 17. He’s played at least one every season since then, and five of those seasons were for Baltimore. He is just the third quarterback since 1990 to start a game in five or more seasons for a team he wasn’t the starter for in Week 1. With the Ravens, he is 6-6 as a starter.

There were also difficult moments. His goal-line fumble in the wild-card round of the 2022 playoffs proved to be a crushing turnover in the team’s bid to upset the Cincinnati Bengals.

When his contract was up after the 2023 season, the team decided to trust 38-year-old Josh Johnson as its backup. The Ravens signed Cooper Rush in 2025.

Huntley signed with the Cleveland Browns in 2024 before being released, then rejoined the Ravens on the practice squad before signing with the Miami Dolphins.

He made five starts back home in Florida, where Huntley had flourished as a high school quarterback.

A year younger than Jackson, Huntley knocked his future teammate’s Pompano Beach high school team out of the playoffs.

“He was well known down there because he was one of the best quarterbacks and he had one of the best teams,” said Flowers, who is from Fort Lauderdale.

Although Huntley was playing less than 12 miles from his hometown of Dania Beach, the Dolphins weren’t his NFL home. And clearly Cleveland wasn’t either. The Browns signed him again in 2025 and cut him again, keeping Joe Flacco, Dillon Gabriel, Kenny Pickett and Shedeur Sanders over Huntley. He ended back on the Ravens’ practice squad.

Huntley said his mind doesn’t go back to that time but that he “definitely always find my way back here.”

After Jackson was knocked out of the team’s Week 4 loss to the Kansas City Chiefs, and Rush looked overmatched in subsequent games against the Houston Texans and Los Angeles Rams, the Ravens turned to Huntley again. He led them to a much-needed win over the Chicago Bears, snapping a four-game losing streak.

In the offseason, the team rewarded him with a two-year contract extension.

“I don’t want to see another spot more fitting for Snoop than the Ravens,” said Flowers, even though he and Jackson “feel like Snoop would be a starting quarterback somewhere.”

As a fellow undrafted player, Fagnano has admired the way Huntley has made a career for himself, sticking in the league “and doing it at a high level for a long time.”

He has seen how Huntley approaches practice when he’s not the one under center, talking things through with Jackson, and how he approaches the game when he’s on the sidelines.

As a result, he’s seen how much confidence the team has when Huntley goes in.

“He’s got a winning energy. No matter what’s going on in the game, you still feel like you’re going to win,” said Flowers, who’s been on the team four seasons.

Huntley took over last Sunday with a smile and a calm that has become his calling card.

As offensive coordinator Declan Doyle noted in the latest episode of the behind-the-scenes video “Wired”: “Snoop has like no cortisol in his entire body. Like none. He’s never had a stress response to anything in his whole life.”

And now he’ll attempt to win a second straight game, this one against an AFC North rival — and one that happened to cut him twice.