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Pro Football Focus (PFF) has been unveiling its list of the top 101 players from the 2025 NFL season<\/a>, based solely on performance this past season.<\/p>\n

Former Clemson star Trevor Lawrence was honored with a spot in the PFF 101. After an outstanding 2025 campaign \u2013 his fifth season as the Jacksonville Jaguars\u2019 quarterback, and first season under Jaguars head coach Liam Coen \u2013 Lawrence landed at No. 72 on the list.<\/p>\n

Lawrence finished the year having completed 60.9 percent of his passes for 4,007 yards and a career-high 29 touchdown passes with 12 interceptions. He also recorded career highs in carries (82), rushing yards (359) and rushing touchdowns (nine) while accounting for a career-high 38 total touchdowns \u2013 the third-best mark in the NFL behind only Los Angeles Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford (46) and Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen (39).<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter a slow start to his first season with new head coach Liam Coen, Lawrence came into his own down the stretch,\u201d PFF wrote. \u201cHe finished the campaign ranked seventh among quarterbacks in PFF overall grade (83.7) \u2014 and with the first 80.0-plus mark of his career. Most notably, his 92.6 PFF overall grade from Week 13 through the Super Bowl ranked first at the position.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"Clemson quarterback Trevor Lawrence rolls out of the pocket against Miami during the second quarter of Clemson\u2019s game against Miami at Memorial Stadium in Clemson, S.C., on Saturday, Oct. 10, 2020. (Bart Boatwright\/The Clemson Insider)<\/p>\n

In 2025, after years of battling injuries, enduring coaching changes and facing \u201cgenerational\u201d prospect expectations, Lawrence was seen living up to the hype that made him the No. 1 overall draft pick in 2021.<\/p>\n

Lawrence was\u00a0named an MVP finalist, as well as a finalist for Comeback Player of the Year<\/a>. Though he didn\u2019t win either award, it doesn\u2019t take away from the type of season he had while leading the Jaguars (13-4 regular season) to their first AFC South title since 2022 and first playoff berth since that same year.<\/p>\n

Lawrence clearly made strides throughout the 2025 season as he got more and more comfortable in Coen\u2019s offense. Lawrence was stellar over the second half of the season during Jacksonville\u2019s eight-game winning streak, and as PFF alluded to, he was especially at his best down the stretch of the regular season. He\u00a0earned AFC Offensive Player of the Month<\/a>\u00a0for December and the final regular season game on Jan. 4, after going 105-of-165 passing for 1,371 yards, 13 touchdowns and just one interception in his team\u2019s final five games, while also rushing for 124 yards and four touchdowns on 25 carries over those contests.<\/p>\n

The 26-year-old Lawrence will head into the 2026 season having completed 62.8 percent of his passes for 17,822 yards and 98 touchdowns with 58 interceptions, to go with 1,442 rushing yards and 23 more scores on the ground, over his NFL career from 2021-25. The 2018 national champion at Clemson and 2022 Pro Bowler has surpassed 4,000 passing yards three times in the last four seasons.<\/p>\n

Before the 2024 season, Lawrence signed a five-year, $275 million contract extension with Jacksonville.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pro Football Focus (PFF) has been unveiling its list of the top 101 players from the 2025 NFL…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":770166,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2060],"tags":[5320,7,5324,5322,212,125,2401,213,6,5321,5323,5325],"class_list":{"0":"post-770165","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville-jaguars","8":"tag-clemson-insider-podcast","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-gymnastics","11":"tag-hero","12":"tag-jacksonville","13":"tag-jacksonville-jaguars","14":"tag-jacksonvillejaguars","15":"tag-jaguars","16":"tag-nfl","17":"tag-noonan","18":"tag-track-and-field","19":"tag-wednesday"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116117441442635425","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770165","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=770165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/770166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=770165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=770165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=770165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}