Derrick Henry's rushes for 3 TDs and Lamar Jackson lights up the Colts in the Ravens' 41-23 win

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Derrick Henry still looks ageless, and Lamar Jackson put on an MVP-like show again.

Together, the Baltimore Ravens' offensive stars delivered a knockout punch.

The 32-year-old Henry rushed for 144 yards and three touchdowns as he moved into third place on the NFL’s career list, and Jackson rebounded from a frustrating 2025 season by throwing for 324 yards, with touchdowns passing and rushing, as Baltimore opened the season with a 41-23 victory over the Indianapolis Colts on Sunday in coach Jesse Minter's debut.

“Oh, King Henry, I love you,” Jackson said as he jumped off the podium and hugged his teammate following his postgame news conference.

That sentiment was unanimous inside the Ravens' locker room.

Henry opened his 12th season with yet another big day against Indy, a team he tormented during his time with the Tennessee Titans. He had 24 carries and finished with his 56th 100-yard game and his eighth game with three or more TD runs. Henry also passed two Hall of Famers, Marcus Allen and former Indy star Marvin Harrison, on the career touchdown list.

His 125 rushing TDs are two more than Allen, and Henry's 130 total TDs rank ninth, one ahead of Harrison.

Jackson, meanwhile, showed his subpar 2025 season could be an anomaly.

He was 17 of 25 passing, had seven carries for 40 yards and showed his elusiveness by escaping a sack near midfield and scrambling for a tone-setting first down on third-and-16 in the first quarter. Baltimore scored its second touchdown three plays later.

“We were all on point, from the play-calling to the execution,” Jackson said. “I've been dialed in since OTA (offseason team activities). We all have to stay locked in like this. I've got a ton of confidence in these guys that they can do that.”

The Ravens outgained the Colts 506 yards to 251 and improved to 13-6 in openers since 2008 while topping the 20-point mark in a league-best 10th consecutive Week 1.

Jackson's 10th 300-yard game started with a 229-yard first half as he connected with Zay Flowers five times for 150 yards and a 54-yard catch-and-run. Flowers did not play in the second half because of a hamstring injury.

Indy lost its 11th opener in 13 years. Daniel Jones was 19 of 31 for 166 yards with a TD and an interception in his first game since tearing his right Achilles tendon in December. Jonathan Taylor ran 19 times for 98 yards and two touchdowns but also lost a fumble that led to a Baltimore score.

“Obviously, we've got to be better,” coach Shane Steichen said after hearing boos from the Lucas Oil Stadium crowd. “We've got to coach better. We've got to play better. They had a ton of yards. We've got to be better there, but it's not just about one group. We weren't good enough.”

The Ravens started fast. After Taylor opened the game with a 1-yard TD run, Baltimore answered with Jackson's 5-yard scoring run, Henry's 4-yard TD run, Flowers' TD reception and Henry's 32-yard run to make it 28-6.

Indy could never catch up. Taylor answered with a 3-yard TD run late in the first half. The Ravens closed out the half with Tyler Loop's 57-yard field goal to make it 31-13 — the fifth time in franchise history they scored at least 31 points in the first half.

Spencer Shrader made a 58-yard field goal in the third quarter to get Indy within 31-16. But Henry's 3-yard scoring run with 12:46 left sealed it.

Defensive tackle Calais Campbell had a big day in his first game back with Baltimore. The 40-year-old joined Jim Marshall and Hall of Famer Bruce Smith as the only defensive linemen in league history to make 260 career starts. Marshall finished with 272, and Smith had 267.

Campbell’s 19-year NFL journey began in Arizona and has taken him to Jacksonville, Baltimore from 2020-22, Miami, back to Arizona in 2025 and now back to the Ravens.

Ravens: Flowers was ruled out during the third quarter, and it wasn't the only big hit to the receiving corps. Ja'Kobi Lane injured a wrist and did not return. CB Marlon Humphrey left briefly in the fourth quarter with what appeared to be a right leg injury. CB T.J. Tampa Jr. did not return after hurting his knee in the first quarter.

Colts: Indy appeared to avoid any significant injuries.

Ravens: Host New Orleans next Sunday.

Colts: At Kansas City next Sunday.

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Baltimore Ravens' Lamar Jackson congratulates Derrick Henry on his touchdown run during the first half of an NFL football game against the Indianapolis Colts Sunday, Sept. 13, 2026, in Indianapolis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

Baltimore Ravens' Lamar Jackson throws during the first half of an NFL football game against the Indianapolis Colts Sunday, Sept. 13, 2026, in Indianapolis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

Baltimore Ravens' Derrick Henry gets past Indianapolis Colts' Akeem Davis-Gaither for a touchdown during the first half of an NFL football game Sunday, Sept. 13, 2026, in Indianapolis. (AP Photo/AJ Mast)

Baltimore Ravens' Lamar Jackson runs for a touchdown during the first half of an NFL football game against the Indianapolis Colts Sunday, Sept. 13, 2026, in Indianapolis. (AP Photo/AJ Mast)

Baltimore Ravens' Derrick Henry runs for a touchdown past Indianapolis Colts' Sauce Gardner during the second half of an NFL football game Sunday, Sept. 13, 2026, in Indianapolis. (AP Photo/AJ Mast)

A federal immigration officer shot a Dominican man in the neck as he drove in a car with a 5-year-old boy Thursday afternoon, officials said.

An irate New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani called the shooting an outrage, and spent two hours Thursday night pressing President Donald Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin to release the wounded man, and urging them to stop immigration enforcement operations in the city.

Meanwhile, Trump said Thursday that he will not order a resumption of military strikes on Iran before the Nov. 3 midterm elections in the United States. Trump, while stumping for Republicans this week, has hinted that he was confident an endgame to the war could come in the days before or after the election, while also hinting that he remained open to resuming full-scale military operations against Iran.

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Marcos Charles, who heads Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s enforcement removal and operations division, said ICE officials attempted to arrest the Dominican man, whom officials have identified as Oscar Belgal, and attempted to use their vehicles to block him in.

Speaking to reporters, Charles said Belgal “refused to exit his vehicle” and accelerated, smashing into two government vehicles and moving toward officers, which prompted officers to fire weapons.

Facing backlash after a federal immigration officer shot a Dominican man in the neck as he drove in a car with a 5-year-old boy in New York on Thursday, Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin doubled down on the Trump administration’s criticism of so-called sanctuary cities.

There’s no clear definition of sanctuary jurisdictions, but the term is generally applied to state and local governments that limit cooperation with federal immigration authorities.

Sanctuary politicians and cities “create an environment for criminal activity to thrive, not for the American citizens to be safe,” Mullin said in a news conference Friday.

For about nine decades, executions in the U.S. have been private affairs, often shrouded in secrecy. The stunning Pentagon announcement Thursday that the first military execution in more than 65 years will be livestreamed could change that.

Allowing the world to watch Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan face the firing squad in December would make it the first public execution since two hangings in the 1930s in Kentucky and Missouri drew crowds.

In 1936, a man who reportedly confessed to the rape and murder of a woman was hanged in front of thousands in Owensboro, Kentucky, while the following year, hundreds watched a man in Missouri be hanged.

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Trump said Thursday that he will not order a resumption of military strikes on Iran before the Nov. 3 midterm elections in the United States.

Trump, while stumping for Republicans this week, has hinted that he was confident that an endgame to the war could come in the days before or after the election, while also hinting that he remained open to resuming full-scale military operations against Iran.

For weeks, Trump has been threatening that a post-midterm election escalation in the seven-month-old war remains a viable option, despite his initial promises to Americans of a military campaign that would last a matter of weeks.

But Trump in a social media post on Thursday said the U.S. “will not be attacking Iran at any time prior to the Midterm Elections to be held in the United States on November 3rd.”

Trump added that his team has been “having productive discussions with the Islamic Republic of Iran.”

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A federal immigration officer shot a Dominican man in the neck as he drove in a car with a 5-year-old boy Thursday afternoon, officials said. The Department of Homeland Security said it was seeking to arrest the man in a “targeted enforcement operation,” but protesters and local officials decried it as an example of the dangers of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.

DHS said in a statement that it was seeking to arrest a “criminal illegal alien” with a grand larceny conviction and a history of other arrests. But an irate New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani called the shooting an outrage.

The mayor said he had spent two hours Thursday night pressing President Donald Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin to release the wounded man, to no avail, and urging them to stop immigration enforcement operations in the city. He said that late Thursday night, federal authorities removed the man from the hospital and took him away.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, also a Democrat, said in a statement that she had delivered a similar message to Trump and Mullin by phone.

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President Donald Trump arrives to speak at the U.S. Institute of Peace, Thursday, Oct. 8, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani talks during a news conference near the scene of a shooting on Thursday, Oct. 8, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)