Lawrence had low expectations starting the season but eventually cemented the Jacksonville Jaguars<\/a> as the number 3 seed in the NFL playoffs.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n Tough competition loomed however in the wildcard round as he was faced with the task of duking it out against one of the best quarterbacks in all of the NFL and arguably the best left in the playoffs, Josh Allen.<\/p>\n His performance in the 27-24 loss<\/a> showed flashes of a regular season that consisted of Lawrence throwing for 4007 yards and 29 touchdowns while using his legs for 359 yards and 9 touchdowns leading Jacksonville to the AFC South title, and him the single-season touchdown holder in franchise history (38).<\/p>\n In the loss, Trevor Lawrence went 18 of 30 passing for 207 yards, three touchdowns, two interceptions and one touchdown.\u00a0<\/p>\n Need a news break? Check out the all new PLAY hub with puzzles, games and more!<\/a><\/p>\n The ride was wonderful, but the ending stinks is the message Trevor Lawrence wanted to send to the Jaguars faithful Monday morning.<\/p>\n \u201cYou put in so much work and all of a sudden it\u2019s over.\u201d Lawrence said.\u00a0<\/p>\n Contact us\u00a0@Clemson_Wire<\/a>\u00a0on X (formerly known as Twitter), and like our page on\u00a0Facebook<\/a>\u00a0for ongoing coverage of\u00a0Clemson Tigers<\/a>\u00a0news and notes, plus opinions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated Jan. 14, 2026, 11:15 a.m. ET The NFL Wildcard round has concluded and multiple former Clemson Tigers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":676979,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[95878,7,6,84,98697,96358,96028,95882,98162,96027,96753,95896,95899,95883,95934,95881],"class_list":["post-676978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl-playoffs","tag-accessfree","tag-football","tag-nfl","tag-nfl-playoffs","tag-sstssportscollegeclemsonfootball","tag-sstsnfootball","tag-tagafc-south","tag-tagamerican-football","tag-tagclemson-tigers-football","tag-tagcollege-sports","tag-tagcolleges-universities","tag-tagnational-sports","tag-tagoverall-neutral","tag-tagsports-news","tag-tagtrevor-lawrence","tag-typestory"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115894396139709901","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=676978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/676979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"\/](\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/87249965007-420.jpg\")