Trevor Lawrence isn't ruling out having surgery on his sprained left shoulder before the season ends, but the Jaguars QB also is adamant that he wants to get back on the field as soon as possible.
Michael DiRocco is an NFL reporter at ESPN. DiRocco covers the Jacksonville Jaguars. He previously covered the University of Florida for over a decade for ESPN.com and Florida Times-Union. DiRocco graduated from Jacksonville University and is a multiple APSE award winner. You can follow DiRocco on Twitter at @ESPNdirocco."I think has been a pretty difficult thing to gauge, honestly, of what's the best path forward," Lawrence said Wednesday.
"Hopefully I'm able to get back out there this week or as soon as possible and then it's going to be just every week kind of evaluating it, seeing where it's at. Obviously up until this point I've been doing everything I can to avoid that and want to be back out there with my guys and finish the season. So that's my goal."Lawrence suffered the injury in the first half of the Jaguars' loss at Philadelphia on Nov.
Lawrence was going to get the majority of the first-team reps during Wednesday's afternoon practice, and Pederson called that an encouraging sign for Lawrence to play against the Texans.Lawrence, who has completed 61.3% of his passes for 2,004 yards and 11 touchdowns with six interceptions, said his shoulder feels the best it has since the injury but he wants to see how he feels later in the week before making his case to play.
"I'm preparing to play and I'm preparing like I normally would to play a full game and to go so that if that happens, or when that happens, I'm ready to go," Lawrence said."But also if that's not going to happen, you want to make sure that if Mac's going to play he gets some reps and is prepared as well.
"I think there's a lot of things to consider, but definitely I'm going to factor in every day and kind see how I feel and obviously talk to our staff and see how it's progressing. But I feel the best I felt in the past few weeks."
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