The New York Jets beat the Los Angeles Rams on Sunday moving the Jacksonville Jaguars up to the top pick in the 2021 NFL Draft. In turn, position to select Clemson Tigers gunslinger Trevor Lawrence.
When the Jaguars presumably take Clemson quarterback Trevor Lawrence, it will change the landscape of the NFL. Tony Wiggins, the host of the daily Locked On Jaguars podcast, compared Lawrence’s impact to LeBron James.
Wiggins: The impact this has when you are talking about a quarterback that is considered a generational talent like Trevor Lawrence, the impact this has is, one, similar to what a basketball player would have. And not just any basketball player, a LeBron James or a Zion Williamson type basketball player and this is the type of impact that this could have on a franchise, especially a franchise like Jacksonville.
This has an impact on Jacksonville much like LeBron James had on a Cleveland Cavaliers franchise. I’m not talking about the impact on the Los Angeles Lakers or the Miami Heat franchise, that is different because those are big-city franchises that have experienced winning before in big major cities that have a whole lot of other stuff going on. But for a Jacksonville Jaguars franchise, much like Cleveland, even though it is a big market but it had not won anything and that had that identity crisis going on because they had not won anything and have a very rabid fanbase but they had not won anything, this is the type of impact that it could have. Take away the fact that he is quasi a hometown kid. Akron is his hometown with it being forty miles away. The thing is that the impact that it has is that it totally changes how an organization is viewed.
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