Jaguars coach Doug Pederson has tried to build his second-year quarterback from the ground up despite his elite pedigree. Plus, how the Raiders’ Thanksgiving practice paid off and more.
We’re at the two-thirds pole (yeah, I know that’s not a real term), let’s go …
• Here’s a word that wasn’t often used to describe Trevor Lawrence over his three years at Clemson. Raw.
So it’s at least interesting that, as a rookie, NFL defensive coaches saw him that way. Bill Belichick actually said last January, near the end of the year, that Lawrence “looks like a real good prospect”, rather than just calling him a real good player.