They’ve been playing NFL football for 106 years now and no one – not even Patrick Mahomes, Josh Allen, Lamar Jackson or Roger Staubach – has ever achieved in a game what Trevor Lawrence pulled off last weekend.
Do the math. Go back to the Papa Bear origins, when the league began in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association (APFA), and there’s been something like 88 million games, give or take a few.
Yet never until now has a player passed for 300 yards and 5 TDs, plus rushed for 50 yards with another touchdown in the same game. Sure, it was against the New York Jets. But it still counts.
No, this doesn’t mean the sizzling Jacksonville Jaguars quarterback is a “generational talent” fit to be cloned.
Generational. That’s what they called Lawrence when he came out of Clemson as the No. 1 pick overall in 2021 and, well, that description didn’t quite work out. It turned out to be the term that symbolized the prolific over-hype for Lawrence, who proceeded to take so many lumps like other human quarterbacks on the NFL learning curve.
