One mystery that somewhat involved the Cincinnati Bengals this past season has finally been solved. 

Ahead of the Bengals' Wild Card round playoff game against the Baltimore Ravens in January, there were a litany of questions surrounding quarterback Lamar Jackson. 

Jackson missed the Ravens' final five games of the season due to a PCL injury. 

The former NFL MVP didn't travel with the Ravens to Cincinnati for the playoff game which instantly set off a media firestorm. 

Any word why Lamar didn’t travel with the team?

— Rich Eisen (@richeisen) January 16, 2023

Jackson's decision to skip the Ravens' game with the Bengals instead of joining his teammates on the sideline led to further speculation about his future in Baltimore (which has only intensified this offseason). 

Ravens head coach John Harbaugh said earlier this offseason that Jackson was focusing on his rehab in January and that's why he didn't travel to Cincinnati. 

“I think his focus was on getting himself back on the field," said Harbaugh at the draft combine last month. "You can talk all about that stuff, but he was thinking singularly about one thing: rehabbing, keeping the swelling out of his knee as much as he could. That’s all he was thinking about; that’s all he talked about.”

Last week, Jackson took to Twitter to answer a fan's question about the playoff game against the Bengals. 

Jackson tweeted that his PCL "got inflated" after traveling to Pittsburgh two weeks prior and that's why he didn't make the trip. 

I don't know if that answer will quell the drama in Baltimore, but at least we know Jackson's official stance on not traveling with his team for an important playoff matchup against one of the Ravens' top rivals. 

While things are going incredibly smoothly in Cincinnati these days, it couldn't be going much worse in Baltimore.