Former Clemson star Trevor Lawrence is coming off a stellar 2025 season with the Jacksonville Jaguars, his first under Jaguars head coach and offensive guru Liam Coen.

But as good as he was last year, Lawrence still has room to grow and get better.

The 26-year-old franchise quarterback met with the media on Monday, when the Jaguars opened their 2026 offseason program, and Lawrence discussed how he can improve in the upcoming season.

In his second year under Coen, Lawrence wants to elevate his game by focusing on things such as consistency, refining pocket movement and improving his footwork.

“There’s always little things, technique-wise, whether it’s footwork, movement in the pocket,” Lawrence said. “Looking over at the season, I think I got a lot better in some of my footwork that I changed throughout the offseason last year as the season went on — it just takes a lot of reps, and then the game reps too, it changes a little bit. I got more comfortable as the season went on. I thought that got a lot better.

 “And then some of the pocket movements as well. Just being poised in the pocket, subtle movements, staying in a position to throw. I also think that got better as the season went on, but there’s a lot of clips where I know I can improve and get better. I’d say just the consistency piece of it.”

As for Coen, he wants to see Lawrence take “complete ownership” of the offense in 2026, building on a 2025 campaign where he blossomed into an MVP finalist and was also a finalist for Comeback Player of the Year.

Coen is looking for Lawrence to improve upon areas such as the pre-snap process, “killing” bad plays, speeding up his decision-making and polishing his footwork and mechanics.

“When we get out on the grass, specifically, the expectation is that he’s kind of playing at a level in which he was towards the end of the season,” Coen said on Monday. “From a footwork standpoint, an ownership of the system, communication, cadence, overall command, and also throwing and catching the football. … For him, the leadership, the command and also the way that he was throwing the football towards the end of the season, the expectation is that we pick off there and let’s roll.”

“So much happens for the quarterback, pre-and-post snap,” Coen added. “We would like to be able to give him more ops to play faster, too. There’s that fine line between being in the perfect play – having a number of different cans and kills and alerts – versus, ‘Let’s just call and run it. Let those guys just go play.’”

In 2025, after years of battling injuries, enduring coaching changes and facing “generational” prospect expectations, Lawrence was seen living up to the hype that made him the No. 1 overall draft pick in 2021.

Lawrence finished the 2025 campaign 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 Los Angeles Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford (46) and Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen (39).

Lawrence clearly made strides throughout the 2025 season as he got more and more comfortable in Coen’s offense. Lawrence was stellar over the second half of the season during Jacksonville’s eight-game winning streak, and he was especially at his best down the stretch of the regular season. 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. He led the Jaguars to their first AFC South title since 2022 and first playoff berth since that same year.

Lawrence will head into the 2026 season having 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, over his NFL career from 2021-25. The 2018 national champion at Clemson and 2022 Pro Bowler has surpassed 4,000 passing yards three times in the last four seasons.