{"id":275165,"date":"2026-05-18T14:11:50","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T14:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/275165\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T14:11:50","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T14:11:50","slug":"jaguars-dl-arik-armstead-trevor-lawrence-100-percent-belongs-in-conversation-of-elite-qbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/275165\/","title":{"rendered":"Jaguars DL Arik Armstead: Trevor Lawrence ‘100 percent’ belongs in conversation of elite QBs"},"content":{"rendered":"

As Armstead mentioned, Jacksonville’s Week 16 34-20 win<\/a> over the Denver Broncos was unquestionably a highlight of Lawrence’s season. Against the league’s No. 3 defense in points allowed, Lawrence went 23 of 36 for 279 yards and three touchdowns, and he added another score with his legs. He achieved those numbers and keyed the Jags to victory despite being pressured on 48.8% of his dropbacks, the fourth-highest rate of his career, per Next Gen Stats.<\/p>\n

His greatness wasn’t limited to just that performance against the AFC’s eventual top seed, though. The outing that caught Armstead’s eye came on the heels of a 330-yard, five-TD obliteration of the New York Jets defense the week prior, and both contests were part of an eight-game winning streak to end the regular season during which Lawrence threw for 2,009 yards and accounted for 24 touchdowns versus six turnovers to help Jacksonville win the AFC South<\/a> at 13-4.<\/p>\n

However, one of the knocks against Lawrence remains consistency year in and year out. Five seasons into his NFL career, Lawrence has delivered just two standout campaigns. He made his lone Pro Bowl in 2022 and seemingly flipped a switch toward the midway point of the 2025 season.<\/p>\n

Plus, while head coach Liam Coen appears to have unlocked Lawrence’s potential during their first year together, the league has seen this before. Lawrence awoke in his first season with Doug Pederson, only to regress from 2023-2024 as Jacksonville endured a two-year playoff drought.<\/p>\n

The onus now will be on Lawrence to sustain his momentum under Coen, a mission made easier by the Jaguars stacking his wide receiver room with Brian Thomas Jr.<\/a>, Jakobi Meyers<\/a>, Parker Washington<\/a> and Travis Hunter<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Most discussions regarding elite quarterbacks heading into the 2026 season will likely dismiss Armstead’s inclusion of Lawrence, but if the QB continues to stack success like he saw in the back half of his previous campaign, that could change in a hurry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As Armstead mentioned, Jacksonville’s Week 16 34-20 win over the Denver Broncos was unquestionably a highlight of Lawrence’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275166,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[58097,5267,116,118,121,117,115,5265,74630,5011],"class_list":["post-275165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-arik-armstead","tag-around-the-nfl","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-jaguars","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-news","tag-no-minute","tag-offseason-news","tag-trevor-lawrence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}