Dan Graziano just echoed Trevor Lawrence concern Jaguars fans suspected all along

After a slow start to 2025, Trevor Lawrence has shown notable improvement and is one of the many reasons the Jacksonville Jaguars are 8-4 heading into Week 14. That said, he still has room for growth.

Sure, Lawrence is coming in his best game of the year and has led a couple of game-winning drives. That said, he hasn't been nearly consistent enough to join the top echelon of NFL quarterbacks, which has prompted Dan Graziano of ESPN to say the quiet part out loud about No. 16.

Is Trevor Lawrence the quarterback of the future for the Jaguars?

Dan Graziano recently did a breakdown of third-year quarterback Bryce Young and whether he already deserves a long-term extension. Throughout the analysis, he brought up Trevor Lawrence and stated that it's still unknown if he's the long-term answer behind center for the Jaguars. Here's the skinny.

"The Jaguars extended Trevor Lawrence at $55 million per year after Year 3, and we still don't know whether he's their long-term answer," Graziano wrote. "Teams do wild things when it comes to quarterbacks because they're so scared about having to find one."

Graziano is right when he says that the demand for quarterbacks outweighs the supply. That's why you'll see even average signal-callers become hot commodities in the open market.

Circling back to Lawrence, he's played much better after the Jags' BYE. As Dan Griffis of Action Sports Jax noted, he's completed 71.9 percent of his throws for 1,106 yards with seven touchdowns and three interceptions the past four games. Similarly, JP Acosta of CBS Sports points out that the former Clemson Tiger has made a huge leap in EPA (Expected Points Added) per passing over the middle of the field.

Keep in mind that this isn't the first time Lawrence has ridden a hot streak. After a slow start to 2022, he played like a top-10 quarterback to finish the year, completing 69.7 percent of his passes for 2,273 yards with 15 touchdowns and two picks.

This is a long-winded way to say that the talent is there; Lawrence can prove that he can take his game to the next level. The issue is that he hasn't done it on a consistent basis.

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Why the Jaguars can expect Trevor Lawrence to improve

Although Trevor Lawrence has yet to find that consistency that's evaded him throughout his career, there's a reason to think that he'll soon put it all together because he's got several things going in his favor.

For starters, wide receiver Jakobi Meyers has finally given him a trusted target that can reel in contested catches in the middle of the field, and that's something he lacked earlier this year. Moreover, he's looked more comfortable in Liam Coen's scheme, which is the most complex he's ever been in. Couple that with the fact that he appears to have stability for the first time in his career, and it's easy to see the 2021 first overall pick taking his game to the next level sooner rather than later.

And even if the Jaguars wanted to move Lawrence, they would most likely need to wait until 2027 to do it without huge cap ramifications, so he'll have another year under Coen to pull it off.

So, yes, questions remain about Trevor Lawrence's viability as a franchise quarterback. The good news is that he's in a prime position to shut them down for good.