Jacksonville Jaguars general manager James Gladstone is among those who were highly impressed by what Trevor Lawrence showed in 2025, especially over the last half of the season.

Gladstone recently addressed the media and discussed Lawrence’s performance and growth over the course of the 2025 campaign, his fifth NFL season.

The former Clemson star quarterback and 2021 No. 1 overall pick finished the year having completed 60.9 percent of his passes for 4,007 yards and a career-high 29 touchdown passes with 12 interceptions.

Lawrence also recorded career highs in carries (82), rushing yards (359) and rushing touchdowns (nine) while accounting for a career-high 38 total touchdowns – the third-best mark in the NFL behind only Matthew Stafford of the Rams (46) and Josh Allen of the Bills (39).

“I was really impressed,” Gladstone said of Lawrence’s play. “I think back to the offseason program, there was a learning curve obviously, and the one thing that was very clear throughout that sort of window of the cycle was his interest in making sure the operation was clean, and he was going through step by step to make sure that he was learning the right way and pouring in the right way.

“And you could see a turn in the second week of training camp where he began not just learning but testing. Testing what could work, what could fit, all those sorts of things. So, that was kind of a cool evolution over the course of the offseason.”

Lawrence was especially stellar over the second half of the season while leading the Jaguars to wins in each of their final eight regular season games en route to their first AFC South title and first playoff berth since 2022. During the eight-game winning streak, he totaled 19 passing touchdowns and five rushing touchdowns with five interceptions.

He was at his best down the stretch of the regular season, as he earned AFC Offensive Player of the Month for December and the final regular season game on Jan. 4, after going 105-of-165 passing for 1,371 yards, 13 touchdowns and just one interception in his team’s final five games, while also rushing for 124 yards and four touchdowns on 25 carries over those contests.

Lawrence clearly made strides throughout the season as he got more comfortable in first-year Jaguars head coach Liam Coen’s offense.

“Just generally zooming out away from just Trevor, it’s the idea that you know teams can be built over the course of an offseason is true – but the good ones, the great ones, they evolve over the course of the regular season. And you saw that evolution in Trevor over the course of the regular season,” Gladstone said.

“There was a clear uptick in command, control, comfort, playmaking – all that stuff jumped out in a real way, and I look forward to being able to have him carry that momentum into the offseason here and continue to dive into what Liam and our coaching staff would call ‘three better, three best,’ which is a very pointed offseason attack.”

Before the 2024 season, Lawrence signed a five-year, $275 million contract extension with Jacksonville. Over his five-year NFL career from 2021-25, he has completed 62.8 percent of his passes for 17,822 yards and 98 touchdowns with 58 interceptions, to go with 1,442 rushing yards and 23 more scores on the ground. The 2018 national champion at Clemson and 2022 Pro Bowler has surpassed 4,000 passing yards three times in the last four seasons.

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