{"id":733237,"date":"2026-02-06T10:50:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T10:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/733237\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T10:50:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T10:50:13","slug":"jaguars-trevor-lawrence-finished-4th-in-comeback-player-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/733237\/","title":{"rendered":"Jaguars&#8217; Trevor Lawrence finished 4th in Comeback Player of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Feb. 5, 2026, 9:44 p.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><a href=\"\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Jacksonville Jaguars<\/a> quarterback Trevor Lawrence was a finalist for the NFL&#8217;s Comeback Player of the Year award. However, the honor will go to San Francisco 49ers&#8217; running back Christian McCaffrey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Due to injury, Lawrence played in only seven games during the 2024 season. This season, Lawrence&#8217;s first under Liam Coen, he put together his best NFL season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Lawrence finished the season completing 61% of his passes for 4,214 yards with 41 total touchdowns &#8212; including 32 passing &#8212; to 14 interceptions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Compared to the rest of his position group, Lawrence was seventh in passing yards and fourth in passing touchdowns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">During the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/jacksonville-jaguars\/365\" data-autotag=\"0e187629-debe-49e8-9e02-83bd36ad3fcc\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Jaguars<\/a>&#8216; eight-game winning streak to end the 2025 regular season, the Jacksonville offense was averaging nearly 33 points per game.<\/p>\n<p>Expert NFL picks: <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":body nav (nfl)|e|auto spike click:5|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_sp_a\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/picks\">Exclusive betting insights only at USA TODAY.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Lawrence was one of the most productive quarterbacks in football over that stretch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">McCaffrey, meanwhile, rushed for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pff.com\/\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">1,285 yards<\/a> and eclipsed the 1,000-yard mark as a receiver as well. He would score 19 total touchdowns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">McCaffrey received 31 first-place votes, and Lawrence received two, finishing in fourth place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Feb. 5, 2026, 9:44 p.m. ET Jacksonville Jaguars quarterback Trevor Lawrence was a finalist for the NFL&#8217;s Comeback&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":733238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2060],"tags":[95878,7,212,125,2401,213,6,31186,95933,95882,97121,95936,95935,95896,95888,95895,95906,95883,95934,95881],"class_list":{"0":"post-733237","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville-jaguars","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-jacksonville","11":"tag-jacksonville-jaguars","12":"tag-jacksonvillejaguars","13":"tag-jaguars","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-sstssportsnfljaguars","16":"tag-sstsnjaguars","17":"tag-tagamerican-football","18":"tag-tagchristian-mccaffrey","19":"tag-tagjacksonville-jaguars","20":"tag-tagliam-coen","21":"tag-tagnational-sports","22":"tag-tagnfl","23":"tag-tagnfl-hub","24":"tag-tagoverall-positive","25":"tag-tagsports-news","26":"tag-tagtrevor-lawrence","27":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116023304175108007","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733237","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=733237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/733238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}