Jacksonville Jaguars quarterback Trevor Lawrence said Wednesday he was pretty confident by March that the Jags were going to select him with the first overall pick in the 2021 NFL draft.
Lawrence, the consensus top prospect for the entire college football season, told Mike Florio of Pro Football Talk there weren't any guarantees ahead of the April 29 event but he read the tea leaves like pretty much anyone else.
"I'm a guy that never really wants to put the cart before the horse," the Clemson star said.
"I didn't make many assumptions. I probably knew sometime in March.