QUARTERBACK TREVOR LAWRENCE
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THURSDAY, JUNE 12, 2025
(On if he is happy operating the new system) “Yeah, I thought it was really good. Some good
days. Some days were a little sloppier, and that’s just part of it, especially with a new
system. A lot of new guys, everyone’s playing together kind of for the first time for a lot of
us, so overall I thought it was really good. I thought we learned a lot, took some really big
steps of improvement throughout OTAs, and I’m proud of the guys, how they worked.
Everyone worked their tail off all offseason, really pushed ourselves. There’s a lot of times
where this is a period where some people can kind of take it easy and I felt like every day we
really came out here, busted our ass and really were intentional about what we were
doing.”
(On wearing a sleeve for arm soreness) “Yeah, you have to think about I hadn’t thrown
before OTAs since December, so it was about four months of not throwing. I don’t know the
last time, I couldn’t tell you the last time I didn’t throw for four months. I guess four years
ago, when I got surgery. I think just going from that to, I started throwing a couple of weeks
before we started the offseason program, but then we jumped into practice and heavy
volume. I think just over time, obviously, you have to adjust and get in shape for that, so just
a little bit of soreness. The compression helps just relieve some of that, but that’s all it is so
nothing I’m concerned about.”
(On where he feels like he grew within the system) “Like I’ve said, changed some of my
footwork, so I feel a lot more comfortable with that. Just some subtle changes. I think
footwork, my eyes, just where I’m starting, using my eyes as a weapon, manipulating the
defense. I thought there was some great stuff on tape throughout the spring of me being
able to do that in the ways I wanted to. So, that was a big step, just overall being
comfortable with the system, not thinking as much. When you hear a play call, it’s not like
I’m straining to think about what I’m doing. At first, when you get in the system, you’re kind
of doing that, but towards the end it felt a lot more second nature and felt like I could just
go and play and communicate and move fast.”
(On what it has been like working with Quarterbacks Coach Spencer Whipple) “He’s been
awesome. Just has a lot of great insight. He is really smart. We have a great relationship. It’s
been fun working with him, and I love his personality. Very even-keeled, calm demeanor,
that’s always something I appreciate in a QB coach, so that’s important to me. He’s been
great to work with. I think the alignment between him and Liam [Head Coach Liam Coen]
and Grant [Offensive Coordinator Grant Udinski] and everybody and myself is right on
point. We’re all on the same page, and even if there are things where we might see it a little
differently, the conversation and dialogue in the meeting rooms have been awesome. And I
feel like we always get to a place where we’re on the same page, which is really important.”
(On WR/DB Travis Hunter’s growth during OTAs) “He’s grown a lot. There’s a lot, obviously,
being thrown on him. Being a high pick, playing both ways. I can understand being drafted
high and the expectations, but I didn’t play both ways. That’s another world. I think he’s
done a great job. Obviously, this is going to be a big opportunity for him during this break.
You want to get your mind right and be ready to go and be rejuvenated for camp, but you
also have to really be prepared and be ready. He’s got some time to kind of get in his
playbook and learn the system because rookies have a tough job coming in when we’re
already halfway through the installs. They come in and half the playbook is in, and they’re
just jumping in on a random, so they don’t get to start off like all of us do kind of with the
softballs and work their way in. They jump in right in the middle of it, so I’m excited to spend
some time with him this summer. We plan on getting together quite a bit and throwing,
getting some timing down, but also just talking through the system. I have no concerns
about him. I’m really excited just to see him continue to get better. He is a special player on
both sides of the ball.”
(On the common thought that you can’t gain much insight about linemen during OTAs and
if he learned anything about the offensive line over the last month) “Yeah, I agree with that a
little bit. I think not totally, though. I think it’s still important just for communication,
identification with the defense, working games, passing off games. Yes, the physical side of
some of the one-on-one blocks. I think the defensive line is always at an advantage when
you’re in no pads. It’s just hard, there’s nothing to grab onto, there’s nothing to really anchor
in on, so that’s difficult. But as far as just the mental part of the game, your steps, your
footwork, getting to linebackers, being physical, violent with your hands, all that stuff, I
think the guys have been awesome. They’ve been great. And yes, there’s some stuff to
clean up, but that’s for all of us. So, I’m excited. Obviously, you learn a lot more once the
pads go on, 100 percent, but I think those guys took some big steps. Like I said, the system
puts a lot on those guys up front to really communicate and know what they’re doing. And
there are a lot of adjustments, and it gives us a lot of answers, but you have to know it. And I
think those guys have done a great job of being prepared.”
(On what he likes about WR Dyami Brown can bring to the offense) “Man, I’ve been super
impressed with him. His speed. Obviously, he is a threat down the field, which is important
as a receiver who can stretch the field. But also, he’s a really smart football player. He’s
picked up the system really quickly. He’s always in the right spot. I think that’s something
about him, I don’t know if you guys watched plenty of practices, he’s gotten the ball a lot
because it seems like he’s always in the right spot. He always has a feel for the zone, like
where to sit, where to throttle, kind of those voids. I just think he’s really smart and I’m
really excited about adding him to the offense, to the weapons that we already have. It’s
exciting.”
(On what rookie RBs Bhayshul Tuten and LeQuint Allen Jr. have shown him) “Obviously,
Bhayshul is fast. He can fly, and that’s a weapon. I think just for those guys, like I said,
coming in and you’re learning so much and so much is changing, just for them to get
comfortable so they can go play. Running back is such a feel position, and you have to get
in the flow of a game, and without pads, it can be tough, so it’s hard to say, but I’ve been
impressed with those guys just how they picked it up. Like I said, Bhayshul’s speed. I think
LeQuint’s been awesome in pass protection. It seems like he really understands it. Great
hands, hard worker. I’ve been impressed with just his attitude and the way he carries
himself.”
(On getting timing down with his new pass catchers) “It’s been good. There are things where
it’s not always perfect and especially at practice when you’re first learning guys’ timing and
how they run routes, and trying to get your anticipation down. Like, I love to throw with
anticipation, so I’m not going to come out here and practice waiting on guys to come out of
breaks. Like, that’s not realistic in the games. You’re throwing it early, you’re throwing it
before the guys’ breaks. I think sometimes you leave the field some days, and you’re like, I
wasn’t the cleanest. Because maybe you missed some, or maybe the timing was off, or a
guy took an extra step, but that stuff, once that happens, you learn from it. If you just wait
on guys to come out of breaks every time, every ball’s going to look good. Then, in a game
when you have to throw with anticipation, you’re going to miss a lot of them. I think this is
the time to really nail down that timing and work on it, instead of waiting. I think overall, I
improved drastically over the offseason. There’s still some stuff that we can work on, but
we have a few weeks to do it before camp and then obviously camp.”
(On how excited he is for his first Father’s Day) “Really excited. Yeah, obviously first Father’s
Day for me. It’s just been the coolest thing, becoming a dad, and just the perspective
change that I’ve had from that. It’s definitely balanced my life out in a lot of ways.
Something that’s hard is I feel like my mind is always going, and you go home and you can’t
take any of that stuff home, trying to be the best husband and dad you can be. It’s really
helped me kind of compartmentalize a little bit and be able to go home and just be a dad
and enjoy that instead of taking stuff home with me. So, it’s been good. It’s just incredible
seeing her grow up, and she’s starting to crawl and change. It’s just crazy. I’m sure, as all
you guys that are parents out there know, but it’s awesome.”
(On any vacation plans for the summer break) “Yeah, we have a couple. Family trips, stuff
with really both of our families. Just trying to get some downtime, and that’s really about it.
Those are the big things. Yeah, so we have some stuff to try to get a little bit of time with
them before it gets crazy. Once training camp starts, not seeing the family much, so it’ll be
good to spend some time with our families.”
HEAD COACH LIAM COEN
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THURSDAY, JUNE 12, 2025
(On if he’s pleased with what the team accomplished in the offseason program) “Yeah, I
think you’re always pleased and you’re always wanting a little bit more. That’s the beauty of
this time. You’re trying to establish a foundation of fundamentals, techniques, alignment,
assignment, right? We’re not really judging as much did he make the play or not? It’s, hey,
can we break the huddle, or can we get a call in and go execute? I think you’re fairly pleased
with where you’re at right now.”
(On WR/DB Travis Hunter switching jerseys to join the defense at the end of practice, and if
that’s a preview of what’s to come) “Yeah, I think so. That’s definitely what we have to build
towards for training camp, and then obviously in season, knowing that during practice, he’s
going to have to do both. He wants to do it. It’s not as if it’s something he can’t handle. He
wants to go and do that more. He wants more, and that’s a good thing. But ultimately, we
also have to protect him from himself at times as well, and make sure we get out of this
phase healthy, but that is absolutely the plan moving forward.”
(On his message to the team going into the break) “The work doesn’t stop. Go enjoy family
and get away from it a little bit, but we’ve got a lot of work to do this summer. We’ve got to
come back in the best possible physical shape that we can be in coming into training
camp, not use training camp to get in shape. That’s got to be something that we’re hitting
the ground running and able to just go once we get in here. And they’ve got a lot of studying
to do. They’ve got a lot of material to continue to cover, so that again, we’re not starting
back at square one when we come back in training camp. We will, in fact, go back to install
one, but install one may be a little heavier than install one this spring. So, ultimately,
they’ve got some work to do this summer, and that was the message.”
(On his first offseason program as a head coach) “Yeah, it was cool. I mean, the highs and
lows you ride a little bit as a head coach in terms of offense doing well, defense, special
teams, all that. But in terms of the connection with the guys and getting to know them a
little bit more on a personal level, and ultimately to gain trust. That’s what this whole phase
was for us as coaches: to implement a foundation, but also get to know these guys a little
bit more on a personal level so that we gain a little bit more trust. Ultimately, they’re not
going to just go do what you say because you’re a coach. We have to build a relationship
and a foundation in order for those guys to trust us.”
(On if the offseason program went as expected) “No surprises. It was very much what you
would expect just from learning, growing. I have seen some improvement, for sure, out of a
number of players. I don’t have a true specific person that really stands out, like, oh my
god, there were huge strides here, but you just saw a gradual understanding, guys getting
more comfortable in this setting, especially some of the younger guys. The speed of this
game, practice is a lot faster than what they’ve maybe been used to at their college. The
guys are picking it all up. If they don’t know – that’s been the cool part is they haven’t been
afraid to ask. You see these guys up in our coaches’ offices all the time. All the time. Every
morning. [LB] Devin Lloyd is in here every single day. These guys are trying to learn and get
as much out of it as possible.”
(On what he and his staff will work on until training camp) “Continuing to trim the install
and adjust our installs and say, okay, what do we really want to focus on in install one
through three? What do we want the next three installs to be? We typically go in threes,
because that’s how we’ll kind of practice in a lot of ways with an off day. So, tweak some of
those, and then also get a lot of the seasonal prep organized with whether it be the video
staff, analytics, personnel. We’ve had a lot of those meetings already over the last few
weeks, but just making sure that those things are getting a little bit tightened up and ready
to go for training camp.”
(On QB Trevor Lawrence’s growth over the offseason in the offensive system) “I think just
calling a play, right? You go out here on day one of Phase Two and you’re calling plays and
whether it be a call it and run it play or a play with two calls or a play with two calls and
maybe a third adjustment, just his ability to go in and command the huddle, call plays,
communicate to his teammates, make protection adjustments. I mean, our defense, like I
mentioned the other day, has thrown so many different blitz packages at us that that
multiplicity is great. It’ll be really good for our foundation this fall, but he has to think every
single play. There aren’t a ton of plays that he can just shut his brain off and go hand it off.
So, that has been a huge kind of adjustment in some ways, but also growth where he’s
shown the ability to go get us in the right plays, can to the right call, and make the proper
calls. I think that’s where you’ve seen the most growth.”
(On what he feels he can get out of WR Dyami Brown) “Yeah, I think so. I think when you
watched him last year and you saw a little bit more of a ball in hand/deep threat. You didn’t
really see him work the intermediate that much, and I think over the course of this spring,
Trevor and him have gained a little bit of a chemistry on some of those intermediate in-
breakers, curls, maybe out-cuts, I just think that they have a little bit of chemistry in that
that was part of the selling point to have him come here was, man, we really want to
continue to diversify your route tree and have you do more. You’re not just a screen, jet
sweep, vertical threat. We want to continue to diversify his route tree, and I think that those
two have built a little bit of chemistry out here.”
(On if what he wants the offense to look like changed throughout the offseason program)
“Not so much. I think that really comes when the pads come on. Out here, we’re not really
trying to emphasize gap schemes too much because that’s when those collisions can
occur, when you’re pulling people, trapping, whamming, pulling two. That’s where a lot of
those things occur that aren’t really supposed to occur in this phase. We’re trying to stay
within the rules, but continue to get better at the zone game, right? That’s obviously a little
bit more of a safe run in this phase, but also something that we want to be able to do.
Everybody runs zone in the NFL game. I think today was actually some of our better hits on
zone that we’ve had. Had a couple of better ones yesterday. I think once you get into
training camp, the run game will have to diversify a little bit more in terms of, alright, we’ve
got the pads on. Where are the toss-cracks now coming in? I’m not going to go crack one of
our players on our team. So, those kinds of schemes are a little bit more, we’ve practiced
them in a walkthrough setting, so we’re getting it installed and we’re getting it repped so we
have some muscle memory, but ultimately that’ll come a little bit more in training camp.”
(On if today was a cleaner day for the offense) “Definitely. I thought it was just less balls on
the ground in general, less procedures, less flags thrown on the ground today from our
lovely referees that came from the NFL. That was great. Once those refs come, NFL guys
come, it’s real. They’re throwing the real flags. It was great having those guys in the building
and hearing their reasons why, so that definitely helped clean it up a little bit. Specifically
offensively, I felt like it was just a better overall day. We wanted to leave here with good
momentum and confidence that these guys can go and have and take through the
offseason program.”
(On his thoughts on K Cam Little) “He’s a stud. You should see him hit a golf ball; it’s the
same that you see out here. He’s explosive. The ball jumps off of his foot. He’s got multiple
different kicks in his repertoire in the kickoff game as well, which obviously we know with
the new rule changes will be really imperative for us to be able to take advantage of some of
those rules with the different types of kicks and styles of play. He’s been great. Been really
consistent, and he’s really fun to be around.”
(On celebrating Father’s Day and the break) “Yeah, I am. We’re heading out of here on
Sunday, so we’ll be flying. We’re traveling a little bit up north, and I’m going overseas to go
hit the golf ball a little bit. It’ll be cool. It’s always nice to be with the family, get away from it
for a few days, but also it’s really hard to get away from it in the mind.”
(On if he’s good at golf) “I’m like a nine. I’m a nine. I can hit it. I can’t putt. Usually it’s
something that you practice, and I don’t have much time to practice it. I like to drive, I like to
hit irons, I don’t love to putt or chip. Played The Yards last week, though. That was cool.”
(On where WR/DB Travis Hunter has grown the most over the last two months) “I think he’s
physically grown. You looked at, we had the weight room goals and accomplishments that
we had this spring, and he was up there with some of the guys who have put on the most
muscle mass since getting here this spring. So, I think I’ve seen a little bit of physical
growth, specifically in his upper half, and also just, it’s a lot of volume, man. It’s a lot of
volume. This is not an offense specifically that you just go out, line up and play. There’s a lot
of shifts and motions and two play calls, sometimes three play calls. So, it is a lot, and then
him having to obviously do defense as well. You see the type of guy that he is. He’s in here
early, he stays late, and wants to work. He loves the game. The growth will continue. I think
we’ll see a little bit more of a jump once we get into training camp as well.”
