Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow didn’t follow college football recruiting during his high school or college career, so he had never heard the name Trevor Lawrence until Lawrence became the starter at Clemson.
Before then, Lawrence was the second-highest rated quarterback in the history of most of the major recruiting services. He was the No. 1 player in the 2017 recruiting class because he was an athletic 6-foot-6 quarterback with a big arm.
Lawrence looks like the type of player who has historically been taken with the No. 1 overall pick. But over the last 10 years, No.