Trevor Lawrence Says ‘I Doubtlessly Knew Sooner or later in March’ Jaguars Would Draft Me No. 1

Jacksonville Jaguars quarterback Trevor
Lawrence said Wednesday he change into once handsome assured by March that the
Jags had been going to make a decision him with the principle general buy within the 2021
NFL draft.

Lawrence, the consensus high prospect for
your total college football season, told Mike Florio of Pro Football
Focus on there weren’t any guarantees sooner than the April 29 tournament but he learn the tea leaves enjoy
handsome much anyone else.

“I’m a man that by no formula in actuality wants to
build the cart sooner than the horse,” the Clemson well-known person said. “I didn’t perform many assumptions. I
potentially knew sometime in March. I change into once pondering enjoy, ‘Right here is
potentially entering into this direction.’ You by no formula favor to assert without a doubt
that something’s going to happen. I change into once keeping all my alternate choices originate
and lawful trying to care for willing for no topic. I knew that change into once seemingly
going to be the predicament the attach I land. I more or less figured there.”

Jaguars head coach Urban Meyer hadn’t tried to play the franchise’s playing cards too stop to the vest at some stage in an
interview with NBC Sports’ Peter King in unhurried March when asked
whether or now not Lawrence change into once the possibility.

“Uh, I could perhaps well favor to assert that’s the
direction we’re going,” Meyer said. “I’m going to go that up to the
proprietor after we perform that determination real. But I’m completely now not
stepping out of line that that’s completely the direction we’re
headed.”

So the assortment of Lawrence didn’t
reach as a surprise to any one. He change into once a 5-well-known person prospect coming out of
high college and built on that potential while at Clemson, making
him the most extremely touted quarterback prospect since Andrew Luck
came out of Stanford in 2012.

The 2020 ACC Player of the Yr
additionally addressed the second the Jags tried known as him on draft evening to
perform the buy real—handiest to bear their first three makes an try breeze
unanswered.

“I manufacture now not know [what happened],
truthfully,” he told Florio. “I change into once sitting there by my cell phone. Had my Bose headphones in
there, lawful ready. I are residing more or less within the woods in South Carolina.
That change into once the attach my position change into once, and the service change into once shocking. I direct
that’s what it change into once. Of us had been texting me enjoy, ‘I didn’t know you
hung up on them three cases in a row.’ And I’m enjoy, ‘I didn’t even
procure the calls.'”

Lawrence is anticipated to take over the
Jacksonville offense lawful away, and he’s got a lot of expertise spherical
him to perform a serious push toward Rookie of the Yr honors.

The 21-one year-mature Tennessee native is
surrounded by working backs James Robinson and Carlos Hyde as effectively as
huge receivers DJ Chark Jr., Marvin Jones Jr. and Laviska Shenault
Jr. Clemson teammate Travis Etienne, the group’s other first-spherical
buy, is anticipated to play a hybrid role within the offense.

Lawrence and Co. are scheduled to kick
off the odd season Sept. 12 at the Houston Texans.