$275 Million Big Armed Young QB Named Trade Option for Jets
Anew option has emerged for the New York Jets at the quarterback position in 2025.
NFL Insider Dianna Russini of The Athletic said the Jets “could explore” a trade for Jacksonville Jaguars quarterback Trevor Lawrence this offseason.
This week, she is the second NFL Insider to discuss the possibility of a Lawrence-Jets potential trade. Connor Hughes of SNY also mentioned it while exploring the Jets’ alternatives at the quarterback position in 2025.
Lawrence signed a $275 million contract that tied him at the time with Cincinnati Bengals passer Joe Burrow as the highest-paid player in NFL history. That has since been surpassed by Dallas Cowboys star Dak Prescott.
Jets Would Have Another Shot of Landing Lawrence
Fans of the green and white thought they were going to get Lawrence back in 2020. The team started the season 0-13 and the former Clemson product was the projected No. 1 overall pick.
Lawrence earned comparisons to Andrew Luck and Peyton Manning coming out of school as a can’t miss generational prospect.
The Jets inexplicably won back-to-back games at the end of the season that took them out of the Lawrence race in the NFL draft. Instead, they ended up with the No. 2 overall pick and they selected Zach Wilson out of BYU.
Wilson became one of the biggest busts in NFL draft history. To be fair, five quarterbacks were selected in the first round of the 2021 NFL draft. Four of the five passers have been traded to new teams, the only one who remains in the same spot is Lawrence.
