More than a few quarterbacks with market-level contracts aren\u2019t earning their money.<\/p>\n
Jaguars quarterback Trevor Lawrence is among the highest-paid NFL quarterbacks, with a new-money average of $55 million per year. Since signing his contract after the 2023 season, Lawrence has not been performing among the best quarterbacks in the NFL.<\/p>\n
Last year, he missed seven games due to injury. In the 10 games he started in 2024, Lawrence had a passer rating of 85.2, with 11 touchdown passes and seven interceptions. This season, he has the third-worst rating among all qualifying quarterbacks at 70.3, with four touchdown passes, four interceptions, and an average gain of 5.94 yards per pass.<\/p>\n
He also has thrown an interception in six straight games. That\u2019s the longest active streak in the league.<\/p>\n
With an interception against the 49ers on Sunday, Lawrence will match Blake Bortles for the franchise record of seven. Bortles did it twice.<\/p>\n
Lawrence\u2019s pay is fully guaranteed through 2026<\/a>. He has $29 million fully guaranteed in 2027, with another $12 million that vests in early 2026.<\/p>\n And so the Jaguars are stuck, in the same way the Dolphins are<\/a> with Tua Tagovailoa. Meanwhile, the other Florida NFL franchise currently is experiencing a massive bargain with Baker Mayfield<\/a> \u2014 who makes far less than Lawrence and Tagovailoa and who is performing at a much higher level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than a few quarterbacks with market-level contracts aren\u2019t earning their money. Jaguars quarterback Trevor Lawrence is among…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171847,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-171846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}