Many viewed this season as a make-or-break campaign for Trevor Lawrence. Since being drafted with the No. 1 overall pick back in 2021, his career has been all over the map.<\/p>\n
Between injuries, poor roster construction, and Urban Meyer being his head coach, Lawrence never felt like he got the opportunity to thrive in Jacksonville.<\/p>\n
Then the Jags<\/a> hired Liam Coen, and Lawrence had no more excuses for playing poorly. Fortunately for him, Lawrence arguably had his best season as a pro. He passed for a career-high 29 touchdowns and a career-best QBR on the year.<\/p>\n Not only was there a statistical improvement, but also major winnings and achievements. The Jags finished with their best record at 13-4 since the 1999 season. They also won the AFC South for the second time in the last four years.\u00a0<\/p>\n There’s no doubt Coen deserves a lot of credit, but Lawrence has been producing on the field. If he goes down, who takes the snaps for the Jaguars?<\/p>\n Here’s everything to know about the Jaguars’ quarterback depth chart ahead of the 2025-26 playoffs.<\/p>\n MORE 2026 NFL PLAYOFFS:<\/p>\n Who is the Jaguars’ backup quarterback?<\/p>\n Lawrence’s backup is former Minnesota Viking Nick Mullens.<\/p>\n Mullens was signed by the San Francisco 49ers<\/a> as an undrafted free agent in 2018. He stayed in Santa Clara for three seasons, with his most successful year being in 2020.<\/p>\n In the 2020 season, Mullens played in a career-high 10 games, passing for a career-best 2,237 yards and 12 touchdowns. After his three-year stay in San Francisco, Mullens was signed to the Cleveland Browns<\/a>‘ practice squad.<\/p>\n Mullens started only one game with the Browns before heading to the Las Vegas Raiders<\/a> for five months in the offseason, where he was then traded to the Vikings<\/a>.<\/p>\n The quarterback out of Southern Miss stayed in Minnesota for three seasons before signing with the Jaguars as a free agent in March of 2025.<\/p>\n With all that being said, Mullens is a true journeyman of the NFL, and now he is the backup for Lawrence in Jacksonville.<\/p>\n MORE 2026 NFL PLAYOFFS:<\/p>\n Jaguars QB depth chartRankName1.Trevor Lawrence2.\u00a0Nick Mullens<\/p>\n The only two active quarterbacks on the Jaguars roster heading into the postseason are Lawrence and Mullens.<\/p>\n If Lawrence were to go down for any reason, the Jags would be forced to play a quarterback who has seen the field only 38 times in his eight-year career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Many viewed this season as a make-or-break campaign for Trevor Lawrence. Since being drafted with the No. 1…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400315,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":["post-400314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}