Fantasy Football: The Trevor Lawrence pessimism has gone too far

At the end of the 2022 season, Trevor Lawrence was an ascending star on an ascending team. He’d directed an outrageous comeback win against the Chargers in the Wild Card round, passing for 288 yards and four TDs, then his Jaguars had given the eventual champion Chiefs a mild scare the following week.

By the end of the 2023 season, however, Lawrence was widely viewed as a disappointment — drifting toward the bust zone, if not quite there. The internet was full of generational-prospect jokes. Every good thing Lawrence achieved the year before had basically been negated.

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Today, we’re mostly out on Lawrence as a potential fantasy contributor — he’s buried at QB20 in the early Yahoo ranks — and the world has moved on to hyping the Texans and Colts as ascending AFC South powers. Reputationally, Lawrence exists somewhere between an enigma and a flop.

But it’s probably worth mentioning the fact that Lawrence is still only 24 years old. He’s been a high-visibility athlete for so long that it feels like he must be 30, but no. Lawrence is actually three years younger than Joe Burrow and one year younger than Jordan Love. He’s only one year older than newly drafted Jayden Daniels. We’re talking about a quarterback with plenty of development ahead of him.

Also, let the record show that Lawrence is capable of completing throws that are absolutely disgusting and beyond the capabilities of many NFL starters:

It’s not as if the buzz that surrounded his arrival in the league was the result of collective delusion. Lawrence, in fact, possesses a few skills.

We certainly aren’t going to try to convince you that his 2023 season was secretly excellent, because that’s not really a defensible position. He threw 14 interceptions in his 16 games, which is entirely too many, and his adjusted yards per attempt slipped to 6.7 — tied with Justin Fields and only barely ahead of Gardner Minshew (6.5). Not great.

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Publish date : 2024-06-11 14:14:19

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