NFL Power Rankings: Trevor Law...

Trevor Lawrence has had 25 NFL starts. Before that, he had 40 starts at Clemson, a big-time college program. That's plenty of high-level football. A year and a half in the NFL isn't enough to know exactly what a player is, but it's a decent look at him. And what we've seen from Lawrence isn't what we thought we'd be seeing when he was as hyped as any prospect over the last 10 years. Lawrence still has time to develop, and the Jacksonville Jaguars will give him as much time as reasonably possible, but it's not like he has no experience. He just hasn't been good yet. Sunday's game in London was a decent snapshot of what Lawrence has been. He made two big mistakes in a 21-17 loss to the Denver Broncos. First was an indescribable interception to Broncos safety Justin Simmons at the goal line. It came on first-and-goal at the 1-yard line, which made it even worse. Simmons is a very good safety and it was a nice play, but this isn't a mistake a good quarterback should make. Then came the real killer for the Jaguars. The Broncos scored to take a lead but the Jaguars had 1:43 to answer. This is the exact spot the Jaguars drafted Lawrence first overall last year for. You expect a star quarterback to at least give his team a shot to win. Lawrence, like most of the 2021 quarterback class, hasn't exactly been an instant star like Joe Burrow or Justin Herbert. He has had a few good games, including wins over the Indianapolis Colts and Los Angeles Chargers earlier this season. That, and his rare pedigree as a prospect, keeps the light on. Quarterbacks develop at different rates. We can see the improvement Tua Tagovailoa and Jalen Hurts have made in their third seasons. The Jaguars haven't given Lawrence a great cast, and that matters. We see that with Tagovailoa and Hurts this season too. But a lot of this is on Lawrence. He hasn't made great decisions, especially in the red zone. His accuracy has been subpar. The Jaguars have practically turned him into a game manager. In three of his last five games he hasn't passed for more than 174 yards. The Jaguars don't trust him to do more, and it looks like he doesn't trust himself to throw downfield. He had just 4.3 yards per attempt on Sunday. There's still time for Lawrence to blossom and be the next John Elway, next Andrew Luck or whatever elite prospect you want to cite. But you'd like to see more by now, and it's getting harder to blame his struggles this season on a coach who was fired last December.