JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Trevor Lawrence just had the best offseason he's had with the Jacksonville Jaguars. Ever.We would know. We have covered Lawrence's entire career since he was drafted with the No. 1 pick in the 2021 NFL Draft, and we have seen him operate each offseason program since then -- all six of them. To push home why we believe Lawrence just had the best offseason program of his entire career, we are ranking each offseason he has had, and why this one comes out on top. No. 6: 2021 Jaguars quarterback (16) Trevor Lawrence and teammates listen as head coach Urban Meyer talks with his team between drills at Wednesday's Jacksonville Jaguars training camp session, Wednesday, July 28, 2021 at the teams practice fields outside TIAA Bank Field. | Bob Self/Florida Times-Union / USA TODAY NETWORKThis one takes the cake for a number of reasons. The top reason has to be due to Urban Meyer's nonsensical, thoughtless, farcical decision to have Lawrence take reps with the No. 2 offense in favor of ... Gardner Minshew? Who, by the way, the Jaguars would trade before Week 1 began. Meyer wanted Lawrence to earn it, which meant he wasted an entire offseason throwing to backups on offense instead of taking 100% of the first-team reps. Meyer did a lot of stupid things in his short, but still too-long, stint cosplaying as an NFL head coach. A lot. To the extent that a book can be, and one day, will be written about it. But taking valuable reps away from a rookie Lawrence is pretty high up on his list of Duval-based sins. Then there is the fact that this was a rookie Lawrence. Fresh out of Clemson, Lawrence was not exactly developed to be a pro style quarterback in college. The difference in refinement between Lawrence during the 2021 offseason and even just a year or two later was substantial. Like most of Lawrence's rookie season, this was a time to forget. No. 5: 2025 Jacksonville Jaguars quarterbacks coach Spencer Whipple, left, jogs with quarterback Trevor Lawrence (16) to the next drill during the Jacksonville Jaguars’ mandatory minicamp Tuesday June 10, 2025 at the Miller Electric Center in Jacksonville, Fla. [Doug Engle/Florida Times-Union] | Doug Engle/Florida Times-Union / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn ImagesYes, Lawrence's best season in the NFL yet was preceded by his worst offseason not managed by the NFL's worst head coach ever. There were a few reasons for that, but there are two factors that rise above all of the other ones: Lawrence's health, and Lawrence's transition to Liam Coen's new offense and way of doing things.Coen has talked extensively before about the value in Lawrence being healthy this offseason, becuase it was something the Jaguars simply didn't have a year ago. During last year's offseason program, Lawrence was still recovering from a shoulder surgery that prematurely ended his 2024 nightmare season, and it was clear the impact this had.It was also a bit touch-and-go as it pertained to the change in offensive systems. Lawrence has since mastered Coen's scheme, but the Jaguars' head coach and play-caller runs an offense that several Jaguars have said is the most extensive they have ever had to learn. Lawrence was not just recovering physically last year, but he was likely swimming quite a bit mentally as well. No. 4: 2024 Jacksonville Jaguars quarterback Trevor Lawrence (16) smiles at Jacksonville Jaguars wide receiver Christian Kirk (13) and wide receiver Gabe Davis (0) during a combined NFL football training camp session between the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Jacksonville Jaguars Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2024 at EverBank Stadium’s Miller Electric Center in Jacksonville, Fla. [Corey Perrine/Florida Times-Union] | Corey Perrine/Florida Times-Union / USA TODAY NETWORKFor my money, 2024 was the worst season of Lawrence's career. A lot of people will understandably point to his rookie year under Meyer, which was so fruitless that it somehow led to people speculating whether Lawrence was actually the best quarterback in his class. But the 2024 season was filled with injuries, losses, the worst stretch of Lawrence's career individually, and the fact that it was clear as early as Week 2 or Week 3 that the Doug Pederson era was cooked. The 2024 offseason program didn't exactly inspire much confidence before that. Lawrence and the Jaguars' stale offense struggled to consistently move the ball against Ryan Nielsen's defense, which would finish as one of the worst defenses in franchise history. The supporting cast was questionable, too, and in hindsight this is up there with 2021 in terms of being more forgetable than anything else.No. 3: 2022 Jacksonville Jaguars quarterback Trevor Lawrence (16) talks with Quarterbacks coach Mike McCoy during Monday's training camp session. The Jacksonville Jaguars held training camp Monday, August 1, 2022, at the Episcopal School of Jacksonville Knight Campus practice fields on Atlantic Blvd.
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