Jaguars' Trevor Lawrence 'Feeling OK' After Knee Injury vs. Colts
Jacksonville Jaguars quarterback Trevor Lawrence appears to have avoided potential disaster.
Lawrence left Sunday's 37-20 win over the Indianapolis Colts with a knee injury after rolling out and taking a sack with just over 3:00 left in the game, but the third-year signal-caller said after the game that he was "feeling OK."
"I'm going to get it checked out tonight and see kind of what's going on. I feel pretty good. I'm walking around all right. Can't really say much now. Want to make sure everything is checked out before," Lawrence said after the game.
"Yeah, just felt something, you know, just some discomfort in my knee when I went down. I don't know if it was twisted or landed on or what. I kind of felt it right away. Put a little pressure on it. Realized I could get up. So I was just trying to get up and get off the field. Yeah, that's all it was there."
Lawrence, who said he is dealing with some knee bruising, finished the day 20-of-30 for 181 yards, two touchdowns and an interception.
"I thought he played really well. As far as that play call, those are situations that we understand, too. We were trying to get a short sack, not necessarily trying to circle the defense. Part of it's on us, part of it's on Trevor," Jaguars head coach Doug Pederson said after the game. "At the same time we have to be smart there. I thought he played extremely well, saw the field well, threw the ball well. Just the one miscommunication with Christian [Kirk] for the interception, but we'll clean that up."
Many were left flummoxed about why Lawrence was rolling to his left side with no protection with three minutes left in a blowout win, but Pederson defended the play-call.
"Well, that call is in the game plan because it's a movement play. It allows the quarterback to get on the edge. In situations like that, you've seen it work a million times. A million and one, it didn't work," Pederson said.
"We were able to get three points out of it. From that standpoint, it was effective. Look, is there a little bit of risk there to run your quarterback? Yes. But at the same time, the reward is you get the first down, and you stay on the field and ice the game in those situations. Definitely wouldn't change the scenario or the situation. We can coach that a little bit better and ask him maybe to go down a little bit sooner."
