Shad Khan sits four days from completing what amounts to a football facelift of the star-crossed organization he bought nine years ago. He leveraged the assets his previous regime amassed into landing a legendary coach in January who was heavily sought-after at two levels of the sport, and, on Thursday, he and that coach will use the most precious of those assets, the first pick in the draft, on the most precious asset a team can have.
The Jaguars’ owner wasn’t going to confirm for me, as we talked on Saturday, what we all believe has been a fait accompli for more than two years now: that Trevor Lawrence will be the first pick in the 2021 draft.