QB Trevor Lawrence is rewriting Jaguars history, aiming for a record-breaking season as Jacksonville awaits Tennessee in Week 18.
Jacksonville Jaguars QB Trevor Lawrence is on the verge of history.
If Lawrence scores three touchdowns -- whether by passing and/or rushing -- against the Tennessee Titans, he’ll set Jacksonville’s all-time single-season record.
It's a realistic goal, given Lawrence’s current form and Tennessee being 3-13.
The current record is 35, set in 2015 by QB Blake Bortles.
Two years later, Bortles led the Jags to the AFC Championship Game. This year’s team has every chance to get that far, if not further.
If there’s any team playing better than Jacksonville right now, the list is short.
Jacksonville has won seven in a row, with five of those wins by double digits.
One of those wins was over the Broncos in Denver, which is the only game Denver has lost since late September.
If the Jags win Sunday, it will be their 13th win, the most the franchise has won since 1999, when coach Tom Coughlin led the team to a 14-2 record.
Lawrence has been a big a part of this Jags team's success.
It didn’t always look so good.
Through nine games, Jacksonville was a pedestrian 5-4, and Lawrence had ho-hum numbers, with seven interceptions to his 10 TDs.
Since then, both the player and the team have been on a heater.
During this seven-game winning streak, Lawrence has thrown 16 TD passes and five INTs, with three of those picks coming in one game (Nov. 23 against Arizona).
Part of Lawrence’s success is his ability to create explosive plays.
Since the Jags started their win streak seven weeks ago, 55.7 percent of Lawrence’s completions have gone for 10 or more yards, which is more than any quarterback in the NFL.
Lawrence has also helped the Jags on the ground, with 48.8 percent of his rushes leading to first downs, again leading the NFL.
He’s rushed for a career-high 348 yards and two TDs on 80 carries.
On the season, Lawrence ranks in the NFL’s top 10 in passing yards (3,752) and touchdowns (26).
Although Lawrence’s 12 interceptions are tied for the fifth most, he’s only thrown one over the past month.
"Trev has definitely been playing at a high level," Jags coach Liam Coen said on The Pat McAfee Show on Tuesday.
"[W]hen I first got here, we had a lot of honest, open conversations about what his goals were, where he wanted to go with it, within his career and his position," Coen told McAfee. "[I]t took a little bit of time, and that's why so many of these quarterbacks need that time, right? Timing and circumstances matter."
By the time the Jags had their bye week in Week 8, Coen said Lawrence was ready to go full-bore.
"We just had some honest conversations about, OK, man, just cut it loose, let it rip."