It’s not often a player comes around that receives the amount of pre-professional hype that Trevor Lawrence has. With him being considered a generational prospect, it’s a foregone conclusion he will be selected first overall by Jacksonville.
But quarterback consultant and former NFL passer Jordan Palmer thinks Lawrence is tuning out that chatter. On an episode of the “Patriot Talk Podcast” on NBC Sports, he discussed the former Clemson quarterback. You can listen to the clip starting at the 21:40 mark.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jsg2EFAIZx4
“I think Trevor is just trying to get better, he’s trying to figure out what it’s going to take to be great in the league right away and do those things,” Palmer said. “He has the most NFL franchise quarterback experience before college than anybody I’ve been around. I’ve been around Watson, Mahomes… Trevor’s been a big deal since his senior year in high school.”
Palmer thinks that Lawrence is used to high-pressure situations like this. A starter throughout all three of his years at Clemson, he’s been in the national spotlight since he won the national championship as a true freshman. And though the Jaguars expect a lot out of him, Palmer said there may actually be less attention and pressure on him once he gets to the league.
“If he goes to Jacksonville, I think Jacksonville is going to feel smaller than what he’s been dealing with… he’s been the face of college football for three years, not Clemson.”
The Jaguars will hope Palmer is right about Lawrence, as they are about to make him the centerpiece of the franchise for (hopefully at least) the next decade.