Trevor Lawrence ruled out for pivotal Week 17 Jaguars-Panthers game

The Jacksonville Jaguars are reeling.

And the crew acquired much more dangerous information on Friday.

The Jaguars have misplaced four-straight video games, and now sit tied with the Indianapolis Colts and the Houston Texans atop the AFC South. All three groups enter Week 17 with matching 8-7 data. Whereas the Jaguars maintain tiebreakers over each Indianapolis (due to a season sweep of the Colts) and Houston (due to a greater file within the division) issues are a lot tighter within the division for Jacksonville than they had been only a few weeks in the past.

Because the crew appears to be like forward to a vital Week 17 sport in opposition to the Carolina Panthers, they are going to be with out beginning quarterback Trevor Lawrence for that sport.

Lawrence is coping with a AC joint sprain in his throwing shoulder, which he suffered through the crew’s Week 16 loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. He suffered the harm diving for a primary down on a fourth-and-one scenario through the second half. Lawrence picked up the primary down, and completed the drive, however was pulled from the sport.

“After I landed, I knew one thing was off,” Lawrence mentioned this week. “And the subsequent play, it sort of hurts to throw. I wished to complete the drive out, and we had been in a position to get some factors, after which on the two-point [conversion attempt] may inform by the way in which I threw it, I couldn’t actually get my shoulder up ok to essentially hold enjoying.

“I’d’ve cherished to have stayed in, however simply sort of hurting all people at that time if I do, so that they made the decision to only sit the remainder of the night time.”

Lawrence didn’t observe on Thursday, and the crew formally dominated him out on Friday. C.J. Beathard will get the beginning in his place.

For Lawrence, this would be the first time in his enjoying profession that he has missed a sport because of harm. Lawrence by no means missed a sport in highschool, and whereas he missed two video games throughout his time at Clemson, each of these had been because of COVID-19.

This brings to an finish a streak of 51-straight begins for Lawrence within the NFL, the second-longest lively streak for a quarterback. Josh Allen at present holds the mark for essentially the most consecutive begins for a QB, with 94 video games.