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Trevor Lawrence confident in Jaguars, will enjoy healthy offseason
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Jacksonville Jaguars quarterback Trevor Lawrence enjoyed a career season in 2025, finishing with 38 total touchdowns (29 passing, nine rushing) and over 4,000 passing yards.
Lawrence was named the AFC Offensive Player of the Month for the month of December/January. In that span, he helped Jacksonville reach a 5-0 record, threw for 1,371 yards and scored 17 total touchdowns, the most in the NFL during that span.
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Since Week 13, he has had the most games with a 100-plus passer rating in the NFL (five). He joined Josh Allen , Kyler Murray , and Cam Newton as the only players in NFL history with at least 25 touchdown passes and nine rushing touchdowns in a season.
His season set a new bar for Lawrence's development, and running back Travis Etienne gave Lawrence some lessons to follow moving forward. What's the next step? What's Lawrence's ceiling?
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"I feel like we don't understand Trevor's ceiling, but I would say [the] biggest thing for him [moving forward] is to ... be cocky, stop caring what people think," Etienne said Monday, locker room cleanout day.
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"In reality, just don't give a [dang], man. You're the man. Just go out there and be yourself. Make plays, just play fearlessly, reckless abandonment."
Lawrence feels he's made tremendous strides this season. He mentioned in his post-game press conference that he felt he had mastered the team's offense, gaining confidence with every rep he took.
His sentiment remained during locker room cleanout day, but he caveated that he needs to review the entire season before he can make a good evaluation of where to go from here.
"There's a bunch of steps that I took in the right direction this season. I think the consistency, accuracy, pocket movements, extended plays, some of those things are some improvements that I wanted to make, and I did," said Lawrence.
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Moving forward , Lawrence wants to refine those attributes and gain greater consistency. He admitted that as the season went on, a couple of things he had learned got a little sloppy.
"Some of the footwork in the pocket, continue to improve accuracy, different arm angles, just continuing to give guys a chance to get the ball as soon as possible in space so that they can make plays. Some more completions underneath, earlier in games, some different things," Lawrence said, adding that he believes the team is heading in the right direction.
The team enjoyed a thrilling 13-4 regular season before falling just short of the mark against the Buffalo Bills in the Wild Card round of the playoffs.
Trevor Lawrence enters offseason fully healthy
Lawrence will enter the offseason fully healthy for the first time since the 2022 campaign.
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During the 2024 and 2025 offseasons, Lawrence was making his way back from various injuries.
After the 2023 season, Lawrence was recovering from an MCL sprain, a high ankle sprain, and a shoulder injury that ultimately did not require surgery. He missed one game that season.
Jacksonville Jaguars quarterback Trevor Lawrence (16) reacts to a false start during the first quarter of an NFL football AFC Wild Card playoff matchup, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026, in Jacksonville, Fla. The Bills defeated the Jaguars 27-24. [Corey Perrine/Florida Times-Union]
After the 2024 season, Lawrence underwent surgery to repair a severe AC joint sprain in his left, non-throwing shoulder. He also dealt with recovery from a concussion that ultimately left him sidelined for the last five games of the year, missing seven total that season.
This year, Lawrence is finally entering the offseason healthy. Going through an entire season on the healthy side of things can only pay dividends for him and the team down the road.
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"I think just being healthy throughout the season, being able to build on that week after week, and having the continuity of our group [helps]," Lawrence said, adding that everyone is fighting through injuries and he's thankful for the group of guys battling to play week-in and week-out.
"I'm thankful for my health, and obviously our guys up front did awesome, protected all year, and [I] couldn't ask for more out of them.... it'll be nice going into the offseason pretty healthy for the most part," Lawrence finished.
Lawrence is set to enter his sixth season in the NFL as the Jaguars look to return to form next year.
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With Lawrence's ascension, the assumption moving forward is for Jacksonville to continue its success well into next season and beyond.
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Still, numerous teams stumble after a heroic rise in a previous year. For instance, the Minnesota Vikings finished with a 9-8 record, missing the playoffs after enjoying a 14-3 season the year prior. Minnesota's quarterback situation was a major factor in their fall, but it's a reminder that success isn't always guaranteed by past success.
So, why is there confidence for Jacksonville to continue its ascension?
"You just look at the improvements that we made over the course of the season, really, as a team playing together, but especially offensively, you look at where we were in Week 1, all the way until now. I mean, we've improved drastically in a lot of different areas," Lawrence explained.
Jacksonville improved from 18th in yards per game (334.9) at the team's Week 8 BYE to 11th by season's end (338.6). They went from 22nd in points per game (20.9) to 7th in the league at 27.7, scoring at least 30 points in seven of their last 10 games of the season.
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"I think that's a product of the work we put in and learning the system more, guys get more comfortable, and so that's going to carry over, and that's going to happen. But you got to put the work in. You got to earn it," said Lawrence.
"You can't just expect this to happen every year. There's a lot of work that goes into this. It takes a lot to get here, and obviously it takes even that much more to continue to play and one day win a Super Bowl."
Lawrence's improvement was drastic, becoming one of the league's top quarterbacks by season's end. Through the first eight weeks of the season, Lawrence ranked 34th in the NFL among quarterbacks with at least 100 snaps by that point in the year in EPA (Expected Points Added) + CPOE (Completion Percentage Over Expectation) at .020, tied with then-Bengals QB Joe Flacco .
At the end of the year, Lawrence rose to 15th in the NFL in that category at .085 among QBs with at least 350 snaps. Lawrence played 712 snaps this season.
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Lawrence credits a lot of his improvement to head coach Liam Coen. Midway through the season, the two had an honest conversation centered around the idea of "letting it rip," meaning playing free as a QB, making the passes rather than trying not to make a mistake.
"He just gave me all the confidence to know that he had my back, and I think that's one of the best things for a quarterback, to know that the people around you believe in you and have your back, and he just gave me that freedom to just cut it loose," Lawrence explained.
"I think that's a big part of why the improvements came, but it's also just an accumulation of all the reps and everything coming to fruition."
Demetrius Harvey is the Jacksonville Jaguars reporter for the Florida Times-Union. You can follow him on X (formerly Twitter) at @Demetrius82 or on Bluesky at Demetrius .
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This article originally appeared on Florida Times-Union: Jaguars' Trevor Lawrence wants team to pick up where it left off
