Trevor Lawrence
Lawrence enters the 2026 season as Jacksonville's unquestioned starter and QB1, coming off a career year in which Liam Coen's play-action, motion-heavy scheme finally unlocked him.
Role
Every-down starter and full-time play-caller's centerpiece; in 2025 he started all 17 games, threw for 4,007 yards with 29 TDs, and added real rushing juice (9 rushing TDs, strong red-zone carry volume). Over the final 10 weeks he was the overall QB1, and he heads into 2026 with his pass-catching group largely intact (Jakobi Meyers, Parker Washington, Brian Thomas Jr., with Travis Hunter working back from a season-ending LCL injury). The newly acquired Quinn Ewers (via trade with Miami) is strictly a backup/developmental piece and does not threaten Lawrence's snaps or role in any way.
He caught fire in Coen's system down the stretch, ranking top-5 in the league in yards per attempt and passing TDs over his final seven games while adding a rushing dimension that raises his weekly floor and ceiling; with continuity at OC/HC and his receiving corps returning, several analysts view him as undervalued for a repeat top-5 fantasy QB season.
Nine rushing touchdowns and an elite red-zone carry rate are historically hard to sustain, so some of his 2025 scoring spike could be regression-prone; Brian Thomas Jr.'s second-year struggles also raise questions about whether the receiving room delivers as advertised without him stepping up alongside Washington and Meyers.
Where analysts split
The real debate isn't whether Lawrence is good now — that's broad agreement after his second-half surge — it's whether his rushing touchdown production and hero-throw efficiency from late 2025 are repeatable, or whether that was a hot streak that normalizes his fantasy output back toward league-average QB territory.
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