JACKSONVILLE – His numbers are as real as his results.
Trevor Lawrence has played at a consistently high level throughout the most important time of the 2025 regular season, performing as well as any NFL quarterback in recent weeks.
A Most Valuable Player level? Maybe, according to his head coach.
"I think so, right?" Liam Coen said.
Coen, speaking Monday – a day after the Jaguars’ 41-7 victory over the Tennessee Titans in the 2025 regular-season finale – lauded Lawrence's performance in the late stages of a remarkable "turnaround" season for the fifth-year veteran quarterback.
Lawrence, who completed 22 of 30 passes for 255 yards and three touchdowns with no interceptions Sunday while surpassing 4,000 yards passing for a third time in five NFL seasons, drew praise Monday from teammates, too.
"That's high-level ball," center Robert Hainsey said.
Hainsey was referring specifically to a recent game against the Indianapolis Colts in which Lawrence repeatedly changed plays at the line and made plays under duress – traits he increasingly showed during an eight-game, season-ending streak that secured the Jaguars' third AFC South championship in the last nine seasons.
"These last few weeks, everyone has seen him playing really well and that's who he is," Hainsey said. "That's what he is about."
Lawrence this season not only set career-highs in victories with 13, he had a career high 29 passing touchdowns with a career-high – and franchise-record – 38 total touchdowns. The 38 total touchdowns were one more than quarterback Blake Bortles' 37 in 2015.
Lawrence also this season had career highs of 359 yards and nine touchdowns rushing.
"You're judged as a quarterback by working on the team's record, by winning and losing, by how much they elevate the team and ultimately what you do in the playoffs," Coen said. "I think that gets resolved around this time and the best rise.
"The best rise and the best elevate the people around him. He has continued to do that down this stretch."
Lawrence has two or more offensive touchdowns in eight consecutive games, the longest such streak in franchise history. The only other NFL player with a streak so long since 2017 was Baltimore Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson in a 2019 season in which he was named MVP.
Lawrence in the last six games has 19 touchdowns – 15 passing and four rushing – with one giveaway and a 113.2 passer rating. Lawrence during the eight-game season-ending winning streak has 20 passing touchdowns, five rushing touchdowns and five turnovers – and Hainsey said Lawrence's improvement and development goes far beyond statistics.
"With all the stuff that goes on that you see – all the shifts, all the motions, all the cans, all the protection changes - he has a lot of this plate throughout this year," Hainsey said. "He has done such an excellent job of just handling it constantly and handling it better and better and better each week: The calmness at the line of scrimmage, handling some of those protection checks."
"There are, like, five or six unbelievable examples in the Colts game of him getting to different plays, getting to the checks we need to get to, then beating the blitz, making a play.
"Those things are very hard to do. He's done an excellent job at it."
Lawrence in recent weeks has been mentioned in the MVP conversation with players such as New England Patriots quarterback Drake Maye (34 total touchdowns, 11 interceptions, 14-3 record) and Los Angeles Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford (46 total touchdowns, eight interceptions, 12-5 record).
"So many different names were thrown around for MVP within the first eight games of the season and some of those teams aren't in the playoffs," Coen said. "It's like, 'How can that be?' Every season does this (goes up and down) for so many different teams, different players. It's just the way it goes and there are so many good players in this league.
"Some guys get hot early and then some guys get hot later and it's really what you do in January that matters."
