But he suffered a hip injury in the first half of the opening game, a win over Louisville, and he missed the next six games and never seemed to be 100 percent.
There was talk he would go pro, but Lawson decided to stay for his senior season.
“I need to get better as a football player, that’s pretty much it,” Lawson told auburntigers.com, the school’s official website. “And I’ve got a lot to prove – a lot to prove to myself, nobody else. I still have a lot of stuff I want to accomplish.