After missing the last five games of the 2024 season, Trevor Lawrence is back on the field throwing passes again.

Lawrence and the Jacksonville Jaguars kicked off organized team activities (OTAs) on Monday, and Lawrence met with the media at a post-practice press conference.

The Jaguars franchise quarterback and former Clemson star is feeling good now, five months after being placed on injured reserve this past December following his shoulder injury and concussion. He has been rehabbing from surgery on Dec. 17 to repair the AC joint sprain in his left (non-throwing) shoulder.

“Just getting back into throwing… I went for a solid three and a half-plus months without throwing, just with the shoulder deal,” Lawrence said. “So, starting to throw a little bit before OTAs and then working into it, I feel really good now. I feel like my arm is back in shape. I feel like I’m getting sharper and sharper every day.”

Lawrence took the field this week with a lot of fresh faces around him, including a new coaching staff led by head coach Liam Coen, who was hired in January following one season – and a highly successful one — as the Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ offensive coordinator in 2024.

Entering his fifth NFL season, Lawrence is learning his third offensive system, with Coen set to call plays for the Jaguars in 2025.

Coen’s system is one that Lawrence says he really likes.

“It has a lot of answers,” he said. “It’s great. It puts a lot on the players. You have to know your stuff, but it gives you all the answers. You don’t feel like you’re stuck in a play that’s not set up for success. It gives us a lot of answers. We change the presentation a lot. We make a lot of things look the same.

“Without going into too much detail, there’s a lot of things that I like about it, and it’s definitely unlike any system that I’ve learned before. So, it’s been cool to learn and pick the coach’s brain and try to get it down as fast as possible.”

Coen marks the third different head coach for Lawrence in five years, and he’s also working with his third offensive coordinator in Grant Udinski. The Jaguars have a new general manager in James Gladstone, as well.

Lawrence loves the new regime in Jacksonville and is happy with the direction the Jaguars are now heading in, coming off a 4-13 season in 2024 that spurred a franchise shakeup, including the firing of head coach Doug Pederson.

“I really like the people we have here now,” Lawrence said. “I love the system, I love the staff, the players that we brought in, along with the guys that were already here. I feel very confident in where we’re going and the trajectory we’re heading.”

Of course, Lawrence was labeled as a “generational prospect” coming out of Clemson, and he has experienced success in his young NFL career – especially in 2022, when he earned Pro Bowl honors and led the Jaguars to the AFC South division title, as well as an incredible comeback victory over the Los Angeles Chargers in the AFC Wild Card playoffs.

However, Lawrence has also battled his share of adversity while struggling with inconsistent play, turnovers and injuries. Last season, he completed 60.6 percent of his passes for 2,045 yards with 11 touchdown passes and seven interceptions in 10 games.

Lawrence obviously can’t change the past, but admitted he would “have loved to have a little more success up until this point” with the Jaguars.

“But the reality is this is where we’re at, and I love where we’re at, and I have a lot of confidence in it,” he said. “We’ve just got to keep putting the work in out here every day to prepare ourselves for the fall.”

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