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Fantasy Football: The Trevor Lawrence pessimism has gone too far

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At the end of the 2022 season, Trevor Lawrence was an ascending star on an ascending team. He’d directed an outrageous comeback win against the Chargers in the wild-card round, passing for 288 yards and four TDs, then his Jaguars had given the eventual champion Chiefs a mild scare the following week.

By the end of the 2023 season, however, Lawrence was widely viewed as a disappointment — drifting toward the bust zone, if not quite there. The internet was full of generational-prospect jokes. Every good thing Lawrence achieved the year before had basically been negated.