Trevor Lawrence enjoyed a stellar 2025 season.

The Jacksonville Jaguars quarterback and former Clemson star experienced plenty of success en route to being named a finalist for two major NFL awards — Associated Press Most Valuable Player, as well as AP Comeback Player of the Year.

Lawrence finished fifth in the MVP voting and placed fourth in the Comeback Player of the Year voting. Los Angeles Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford was voted MVP, while San Francisco 49ers running back Christian McCaffrey claimed Comeback Player of the Year honors.

Though Lawrence didn’t win either award, it doesn’t take away from the type of season he had while leading the Jaguars (13-4 regular season) to their first AFC South title since 2022 and first playoff berth since 2022.

Lawrence 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. He 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 Stafford (46) and Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen (39).

Lawrence joined NBC’s Pro Football Talk at Radio Row ahead of Super Bowl LX and was asked if he’d say his 2025 MVP finalist season was the best year of his five-year NFL career thus far.

“I would say so, especially the finish to this season,” Lawrence said. “Obviously, how I was playing and the confidence I was playing with, but our team, our offense — it’s all of that. Just a lot of fun, the run we went on. And obviously, didn’t go as far as we wanted to. But as far as just the way the team came together, it was really cool.”

Lawrence entered 2025 looking for a bounce-back after an injury-plagued 2024 campaign, when he completed 60.6 percent of his passes for 2,045 yards with 11 touchdown passes and seven interceptions in 10 games before being placed on injured reserve in early December after his shoulder injury and concussion.

Lawrence indeed bounced back in a big way and enjoyed a breakout 2025. He was especially outstanding over the second half of the season while leading the Jaguars to wins in each of their final eight regular season games. During the eight-game winning streak, he totaled 19 passing touchdowns and five rushing touchdowns with five interceptions.

The 26-year-old 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.

Before the 2024 season, Lawrence signed a five-year, $275 million contract extension with Jacksonville. During his 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.

Lawrence has certainly had his ups and downs over the start of his NFL career while experiencing success and also overcoming adversity. In 2025, after years of battling injuries, enduring coaching changes and facing “generational” prospect expectations, he was seen living up to the hype that made him the No. 1 overall draft pick in 2021.

In an interview with CBS Sports’ Pete Prisco, Lawrence was asked about his response to criticism and if he takes any solace in the fact that he went out and had an MVP-type season after there were a lot of people out there questioning him and questioning his contract.

“I kind of stopped really caring about [that],” Lawrence said. “I think, if anything, I used all that stuff as more of like a chip on my shoulder than anything. People have said a lot about me my whole career, and I’ve always had the belief in myself, that I know I’m a great player and I know what I’m capable of. And it hasn’t always shown. I haven’t always played my best, and that’s part of growth and getting better. Every year’s different, so I gotta go prove it again. I gotta go play well, and I gotta play well at the end of the season in these playoff games so we can go win these games at the end of the year.

“So, for me, it’s all about the team, and I want to win games with our team. I don’t want to win games just so people think I’m a good quarterback. That naturally happens when you win and you play well. But it’s more about you play this game for your teammates and for the guys around you, because there’s nothing like doing it together. And when you have that success as a team, it’s so much fun. The feeling that we had in the back half of the season, that’s what you’re chasing, because it’s so much fun accomplishing a goal that you set out to do together.”