Trevor Lawrence is clearly on a different level in 2020.
Most fans will shrug at that statement about Trevor Lawrence and chalk it up to playing Wake Forest and Citadel. But I would ask that you look past the stats and past the scoring and look at what he is specifically doing.
If you watched all 31 games that Trevor Lawrence has played in a Clemson uniform, then you know how he starts games. His first few throws are usually a little shaky, especially his throws 15 yards or more downfield.
However, Lawrence has had pinpoint accurate over his first two games. He is 30/37 and averaging more than 17 yards per completion. Even the seven incomplete passes that he has thrown were all catchable. He is as locked in as any quarterback that we have ever witnessed to start the season.
He told us back in May that this coming.
Tapping into a new level...
— Trevor Lawrence (@Trevorlawrencee) May 15, 2020
Trevor Lawrence is locked in despite the untraditional offseason.
To make this start even more impressive, remember, his number one receiver is out for the year, they missed half of their spring practices and the teams spent most of March, April, May, and June all at home and not able to get work in together because of COVID-19.
Sure, we can say it’s just against Wake Forest and Citadel but even last year, look at games three and four against Syracuse and Charlotte. He had five touchdowns, two interceptions and had only completed 29 of his 48 pass attempts.
As I stated in the article about the Clemson offensive line, in games like this, it’s not about stats and scores it is about execution and right now Trevor Lawrence is executing at a clip early in the season that he did not in 2018 when he won the job or in 2019.
With Clemson off this coming week, our next look at Trevor Lawrence will not be until October 3rd when the Tigers welcome the University of Virginia into Death Valley for the first time since November 2009.
While there were lofty expectations of Trevor coming into 2020, through the first two games of the season, he is exceeding those expectations from an execution standpoint.