QB Lawrence works out for Jags, other teams … Former Clemson QB Trevor Lawrence had a pretty solid workout earlier this morning as the presumptive #1 pick at this year’s draft threw for reps from 17 NFL teams at a private pro day workout. Clemson’s actual pro day is scheduled for March 11th, but Lawrence is slated to have shoulder surgery later this month and would not have been available for the Tigers’ official pro day. Lawrence went through a scripted 55-pass program today that was good, but maybe wasn’t quite as impressive as the workouts as some of the other top-rated QB prospects in recent years. Normally in these kinds of workouts, for example, there will be 3-4 passes that hit the ground; however, Lawrence had as many as 9-10 incompletions, although at least 3-4 of those were outright drops. There were also 3-4 passes in the red zone portion of the workout where the receiver caught the ball, but was well out of bounds. We’ll leave the final call to analysts with a higher pay grade than ours, but the sense here was that while Lawrence has plenty of arm strength, it may be a tad below that of other recent QB prospects like Patrick Mahomes, Josh Allen and Justin Herbert. What you did see from Lawrence, though, was a very easy throwing motion that produced darts that were consistently on the numbers as he threw what appeared to be a very catchable ball. He also threw the ball well on the run. In the end, it is hard to see a scenario in which today’s work out did anything to hurt Lawrence’s chances of being the first player selected on April 29th. If there was in fact anything to see figure that Jacksonville head coach Urban Meyer, whose Jags have the top pick this year and are expected to take Lawrence, will have seen it. Meyer was never more than 7-10 yards away from Lawrence throughout the workout where he spent much of it standing next to Clemson coach Dabo Swinney. In fact, according to some late reports, the idea of the whole early workout by Lawrence was at the request of Meyer and the Jaguars. For the record, Lawrence measured in at a tad taller than 6-5 and a 1/2 and 213 pounds; the latter figure, though, was a little lighter than expected, although Lawrence clearly has the frame to add as much as another 15-20 pounds.
