After Thursday’s practice, Jaguars’ QB Trevor Lawrence explained why he’s wearing an arm sleeve.
During the Jacksonville Jaguars’ first minicamp practice on Tuesday, quarterback Trevor Lawrence was seen wearing a sleeve on his throwing arm, which caught the attention of many.
Head coach Liam Coen would say after that practice that Lawrence was experiencing “general soreness” and that it “wasn’t really an issue.”
Following Thursday’s minicamp practice, Lawrence was speaking with the media and was asked about why he’s wearing the sleeve.
“You gotta think about, I haven’t thrown since before OTAs since December,” Lawrence said. “It was about four months of not throwing. I can’t tell you the last time I didn’t throw for four months–I guess three years ago when I got surgery.
“So just going from that to, I started throwing a couple weeks before we started the offseason program, but then we jumped into practice, heavy volume, and I think just over time, obviously you gotta adjust and get into shape for that. So just a little bit of soreness. The compression helps, just relieves some of that. So that’s all it is. Nothing I’m concerned about.”
Lawrence underwent surgery on his left AC joint, which is his non-throwing shoulder, back in December. He suffered the injury in Week 9 of last season, which forced him to miss the next two weeks.
Then, after being placed on IR due to a concussion, Lawrence and the team thought it would be best at that point to get the shoulder surgery taken care of, instead of putting it off until after the season.
Before arriving for offseason programs back in early April, Lawrence had already been throwing on his own at that time.
Once Phase II of offseason programs began in early May, and the team could be on the practice field, Lawrence participated in the individual drills and then in the team drills in Phase III without any limitations.