JACKSONVILLE – He was good. Really good. Now, the idea is to keep improving.
Trevor Lawrence was among Jaguars players reporting to the Miller Electric Center this week for the 2026 offseason program – and as one of the NFL’s most-rapidly improving franchise quarterbacks, he is a primary offseason storyline.
The goal isn’t just matching last season, but being better – week after week.
“I’d say just the consistency of it,” he said.
Lawrence, entering his sixth season as the Jaguars’ starting quarterback, not only finished fifth in NFL Most Valuable Player balloting last season, he finished the regular season playing at the highest level of his career. That finish must carry over.
“When we get out on the grass, the expectation is he is kind of playing at the level in which he was towards the end of the season,” Head Coach Liam Coen said when speaking to the media on Day 1 of the offseason program. “The expectation is that, ‘Hey, we pick up there and let’s roll.’ “
A major reason that could be possible:
Lawrence, who has played in three offenses in five NFL seasons, is entering his second season in Coen’s offense. He spent last offseason not only rehabilitating from season-ending shoulder surgery in December 2024, but learning footwork and fundamentals necessary to run – and flourish in – Coen’s offensive system.
“He wasn’t even throwing for a long time,” Coen said. “We were working so much more on above the neck and the waist down so much of last spring.”
Coen said the goal is to start this offseason “where we left off” so that Lawrence can take the “next step of complete ownership” of the pre-snap operation. That is critical in Coen’s offense, which depends on the quarterback to “kill” bad plays at the line of scrimmage and get the offense into more effective ones.
“So much happens for the quarterback, pre-and-post snap,” Coen said. “We would like to be able to give him more ops to play faster, too. There’s that fine line between being in the perfect play –having a number of different cans and kills and alerts – versus, ‘Let’s just call and run it. Let those guys just go play.’
“We’d like to lean more into that this spring. It’s that balance. There’s a lot of good things that we can learn from, but if he can take that growth of complete ownership this spring, I’m excited about getting an opportunity to do it.”
Lawrence on Monday discussed the benefits of “not having to completely relearn a new system” this offseason.
“That’s a bonus because you can really finetune some of the things and you can get into more of the details instead of just trying to learn stuff for the first time,” he said. “You’re a lot further along. We’re a lot further ahead than we were last year and a lot of work to be done.”
Lawrence, too, discussed being healthy entering the offseason for the first time since 2023.
“That’s obviously a plus being able to just start my training and be healthy back in February,” he said.
And while Lawrence emerged in the last half of the 2025 season as one of the NFL’s best players at his position, with the Jaguars’ offense ascending at the same time, he said the goal this season is “putting together for 17 weeks plus playoffs.”
“That’s the challenge is doing it every week and just excited for that opportunity,” he said.
