QUARTERBACK TREVOR LAWRENCE
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AUGUST 9, 2026
(On why he wears an arm sleeve during training camp) “I just get a little sore at the
beginning of camp, trying to get used to the volume. Obviously, throwing in the offseason, I
prepare for camp, but it’s always a little bit more because there’s just less off days and
more volume, especially the first couple weeks. So just a little soreness but not keeping me
out of anything. Feel good. Feel like every day throwing it better and better, so yeah, just a
little soreness.”
(On the offensive line) “Doing a nice job. Camp is always interesting for the guys up front
because there’s a lot of shuffling around and the cohesion part of it’s really important and
the chemistry of playing together with the five, but on the flip side, realistically it just
doesn’t happen all season. So you have to practice throwing new guys in and shuffling
around. Did the same thing last year, and I thought it really paid off for us with some injuries
that we had later in the season and guys being able to move around and us not skip a beat
and still be able to play well up front, so I think it’s really good for us. I think everyone that’s
gone in has done a nice job and we’re just challenging them, I guess, trying to move around.
And not everybody’s playing their most comfortable position, which is good for us.”
(On second-year OLs Wyatt Milum and Jonah Monheim) “Done an awesome job. Wyatt’s
taking some huge steps. He looks great. Obviously, big, physical guy. Can move people I
think mentally he’s getting it more and more every day. He’s doing a good job with the
offense. And then Jonah, he’s one of the smarter players I’ve been around, to be honest.
And since the day he came in, he just gets it. Obviously, I think coming in as a center and
playing center a lot when he first got here, he’s learned the offense so well. Now he’s
moving over to guard a little bit and he’s able to do everything just because center has to
know it all, so I think that’s helped him a lot. And he’s just really good at getting in position,
really smart, making all the calls. He runs the show up there. Him and Hainesy [OL Robert
Hainsey] do an awesome job and those guys are really smart.”
(On his connection with WR Brian Thomas Jr.) “Yeah, I think every day you can see it show
up and the great thing is, is every day you see it show up, but then you also see plays where,
and it’s not unique to him, it’s everybody on offense where it’s like, oh man, we still got work
to do to build this chemistry to where we really can hit all these big plays that we have
opportunities for. So that’s the good thing is the dialogue between me and him has been
the best it’s been since we’ve been together. The amount of times that we’re talking about
every single play on the sideline after. So much good feedback from him and figuring out,
what he’s thinking when he’s running these routes and how he wants to win on the DB on
certain routes. So, I think we’re growing every day and just really happy with how far we’ve
come along with our connection and chemistry.”
(On if he cares if he plays in the preseason) “Not really. It’s never something I focus on too
much. Obviously, if you do play, you want to play well, so you put everything into it so you
can go out there and play good, clean football. And it’s good practice for us, but to me, it’s
just taking it one day at a time. Like we got practice still on Tuesday here, and then we’re
going to go do joint practice and just trying to treat all those like game reps and get all these
valuable reps that are good opportunities for us to learn and grow. And then when the game
comes, if I play, then I’ll go and do my best there too. But I try not to focus on it too much.
It’s not something that takes up too much space in my brain.”
(On how he thinks he has performed this camp) “I think it’s been up and down. I think it’s
been camp. It’s been competitive and I think we’ve done some great things. We’ve ran the
ball pretty well, I’d say overall. We’ve taken some big strides there and I think the passing
game, we’ve had some good explosives. Still can find more. Couple, a few too many
mistakes, I think, just from me, decisions and some throws I want back. But it’s camp and
our defense honestly has given us some really good looks. They’ve added some stuff since
last year that they’re playing coverage a little bit differently, and then they’re showing some
things and then they’re bluffing out. And so, they’re challenging us, which is really good for
us. So obviously, there’s plays I want back, but I do know that we’re getting better every
day.”
(On communication with RB Chris Rodriguez Jr.) “Yeah, a lot of just get on the same page
when it’s a new back that you haven’t played with. Especially, we do exchanges every day
on just our run plays and how we’re doing our footwork and our ball handling, all those
things and then the protection stuff is huge. Where he’s seeing the calls, he’s knowing what
he’s doing, he’s getting the checks from me and I think that’s probably the biggest thing
because that takes some time. Every team has different adjustments. So, he’s doing great
job though. He’s really smart. He’s picking it up, but we’ve got some more work to do.”
(On RB LeQuint Allen Jr.’s value in the passing game) “Yeah, just great hands, good route
runner. He’s going to be in there because he’s such a good protector, so I think the more we
can do with him and getting him out on routes and concepts, the better for our offense. I
know that he’s capable. I remember watching his highlights and when we drafted him out of
college and some of the crazy catches he had in college. So, we’ve seen him out here. He’s
making plays. He had a good catch down in the red zone today. If he can be a threat for us,
it’s real because he’s going to be in on a lot of passing situations.”
(On Rodriguez Jr. in padded practices) “For sure. You saw it here in the mock game and ever
since we put the pads on, some of these runs that don’t look as great when we’re tagging
off, you see it when we’re thudding and you’re like, there’s no way that guy’s going to tackle
him before five yards. He’s running over people. He runs downhill, he’s a big guy. He’s hard
to get your arms around. His legs are moving. So, I think he’s going to be great for us
because he can get those and find those dirty yards and he also has the capability to make
people miss. So, I think he’s really well-rounded and he has been doing a good job for us.”
(On WR Parker Washington) “Just consistency. I mean, the same guy every day. We might
not connect on every rep, but it’s that dialogue and the communication every single time.
And you know what you’re going to get from him. We had a rep, I don’t know if you guys saw
the deep shot today and we threw it, and routes on air right before it. And I told him, ‘Hey,
hold this angle. I’m going to throw out there.’ I kind of missed the throw a little bit and he
went and made a good catch on the sideline and then we got the same exact rep in team.
He ran it the same exact way and I gave him a good throw where could run under it, so it’s
just little things like that where he’s just really dependable. When you talk about something,
he knows what to do, he knows what to expect, and you can trust him and he just keeps
showing up every day.”
(On if he has grown as a communicator during his career) “Yeah, I think I’ve always tried to
have a good relationship and communicate with all my teammates and all the guys on my
side of the ball, especially skill guys. But I think you just learn as you play more football the
best ways to communicate, what’s actually important. Like don’t fill guys’ brains with stuff
that’s really not that important. Like what do you actually need them to know? If something
comes up that maybe they wouldn’t expect, what do I need them to know so we’re on the
same page? Just kind of cutting to the chase with some of those things and not bogging
them down with too much, but it’s also still giving them the details and the tools to where
we’re always ready for whatever the defense can do.”
OFFENSIVE COORDINATOR GRANT UDINSKI
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AUGUST 9, 2026
(On what he saw from the mock game) “It was good to get that team reps together with a
bunch of different groupings out there. Saw a bunch of different guys in different situations.
First down, second down, third down, a little bit of red zone work, two-minute work. And
like I said, guys in different positions and put in different spots and having to string drives
together. So, it was good to see the guys go out there, communicate, compete, play fast,
play together, all those things that we kind of preach and you try to create in these
controlled settings, but getting into more of a mock game, you really see it come to life.”
(On the players showing improvement) “I think so. And I think not only from the
walkthrough to the practice, you see the accumulation of reps week-to-week, or even from
the spring to the fall, which is encouraging to see the guys even be able to call back to a
way they ran a certain route in the spring and take it to how they’re going to approach it
going into the fall. And say, ‘I saw this look this one time in OTAs, or I saw this in phase two,
or we talked about this adjustment earlier when we were still in the acclimation period a
couple weeks ago.’ And they’re able to retain those things. That’s encouraging because
they’re studying, they’re working at it, we’re continuing to walk through those looks, talk
about those looks, study those looks. And those are the things that separate us on critical
downs when it’s third down and there’s crowd noise out there, being able to execute those
adjustments, those small changes when it’s under pressure is such a big deal for us moving
into year two.”
(On how depth of the receiver room) “A lot. That’s a great question. It’s an excellent point
about the room in general because I think from the top down, from the leadership of Jakobi
[WR Jakobi Meyers] and Parker [WR Parker Washington] and B.T. [WR Brian Thomas Jr.] and
that group that’s typically going with the ones and Travis [WR/CB Travis Hunter] and Josh
[WR Josh Cameron] and CJ [WR CJ Williams], like all the way down to the rookies and even
Trebor [WR Trebor Peña] and some of those guys that are playing with Joey [QB Joey Aguilar]
and Carter [QB Carter Bradley] and Nick [QB Nick Mullens], you have a group of guys that
are football guys. And I know that’s a little bit cliche, but guys that are ate up with football
and playing the receiver position and working on their craft, mastering the offense and
learning the nuances of lining up here and taking this split and adjusting this route a certain
way, just like I talk about. Knowing the difference in the way we run a route versus a certain
look that we got in the spring versus how we’re going to run it in the fall versus a different
look. It’s rare at times to have one or two guys in a room that are that into football and that
into their craft going out there in two or three different groups, let alone have them all in the
same room. So it’s a special group for me to coach, for E.B. [Wide Receivers Coach Edgar
Bennett] to coach, and the rest of the guys. I know the quarterbacks love having guys like
Tram [WR Austin Trammell] out there.”
(On calling plays in the preseason) “Yeah, absolutely. Looking forward to it and part of it is
because I have that group of guys to call plays for that are guys that are, so focused on their
craft and have been so diligent with the way they study, which makes it nice for me because
a lot of times in preseason you’re going out there and just trying to get kind of the basic
plays snapped and executed and see if guys can go out there and communicate. Now there
will still absolutely be an element of that where we want to be able to find out what we have
with those guys. So, I understand going into it that we always go out and compete every
single time we’re going out there to play, whether it’s a seven-on-seven or a preseason
game. But we know that there are other things we want to accomplish to set ourselves up
and set each player up for success going into the season, so we’ll put together a call sheet
and a game plan accordingly so that way we can see what these guys can do and let them
go out there and hopefully compete and have some fun.”
(On preparing for and his excitement to call plays) “I don’t know that I would quite frame it
like that. I think more than anything, I’m excited to see these guys go out and compete
against somebody else. It’s really not about me or the plays I call because these are the
plays we’ve been practicing, and it’s such a collaborative effort to put together a list of
plays that the guys know and are comfortable with that we can go out there and run. And
then really see what the guys can do. Give them the opportunity to go out and showcase
their talent. So, it’s not really about the plays that I call, and I know that going into it and it’s,
like Liam [Head Coach Liam Coen] mentioned, maybe a little bit tighter menu or different
menu that we might carry going into a game plan. But I’m just looking forward to seeing
those guys go out there and run the runs that we’ve practiced a hundred times against our
defense and do it live with tackling against somebody else.”
(On what he learned from calling plays last year) “That’s a great question. I think you learn a
lot about not only the timing and the process you always go through that simulation on the
sideline, even in real games, but having a real feel for the personnels and substitutions. You
have injuries, you’re trying to manage the game, you’re trying to get different looks. So, at
some points you’re kind of even managing more things than you would be in a normal game
because you’re just trying to get the first down or manage a game or finish a drive. Where
you’re going into preseason games saying there’s a couple things we got on our checklist
that we want to see a certain guy do a certain thing or get a certain look or get a certain rep.
So, trying to juggle and balance that was a great experience and I think ultimately one of
those things that you need the reps of going through live, just like a quarterback, just like a
receiver, live bullets flying to really get that down.”
(On cross training the offensive line) “Yeah, you hit the nail on the head. It will be beneficial
because I know I say it every time, you guys are probably sick of hearing me say it, but we
know that you’re not going to have the same five-starting offensive line for every single rep
of every single game. If you do, you’re incredibly fortunate, and that’d be extremely rare. So,
we are fortunate to have guys, you see Jonah [OL Jonah Monheim] playing inside at center,
at guard. You got guys playing left and right at the tackle position. You got tackles who can
play guard, guards that can play tackle, guards that can play center. And shoot, we’ve had
tackles who have taken snaps at center. So, we’re fortunate to have that flexibility. We just
need to continue to build the communication and make sure that each iteration of the
offensive line is as cohesive as that first unit. And that’s something we’ll continue to work
with probably throughout camp, even probably throughout the whole year. Whether we like
it or not, we’re going to continue to work different groupings, different guys working
together.”
(On QB Trevor Lawrence and WR Brian Thomas Jr. chemistry) “I think it’s similar to what we
talked about with the development of guys from the spring into the fall or year one to year
two. We know that that progress is never going to be a straight line, but I think you see the
route tree continuing to develop the chemistry, the timing, and the understanding of the
quarterback and receiver, whether it’s the quarterback knowing the receiver’s going to win
on a certain route a certain way, or the receiver knowing the quarterback is going to put a
ball on a certain location versus a certain look. When you have that down, and you don’t
need to think about it, and you don’t need to communicate verbally, pre-snap every single
play based on a look, that increases your chance of execution significantly. And I think you
see that at times out there. It’s certainly something we’re going to continue to work on, but
it’s been exciting to see it come to fruition when it has.”
(On if anything has stood out from Lawrence this training camp) “I’m probably going to give
you the boring answer. The things that always stand out to me are the things that make you
love coaching a guy like Trevor so much. And that’s who he is first and foremost as a
person, as a leader: his consistency, his work ethic, his discipline, his attitude, his
mentality with which he plays every play. He studies the playbook, comes in and prepares.
Those things are so special to me as a coach, and those things are the things you might not
always see on the field. So, he may have days where his completion percentage might be
lower than other days. But as coaches so committed to the process that it’s still such a joy
to see him come in here and prepare and work so hard and study and try to improve every
single day. Not taking a single detail for granted. It’s so easy, even for me, to assume we’ve
done this before, we can relax on this coaching point or this detail or this play or this
concept. And he approaches it with that same beginner mentality or that white-belt
mindset every single time he steps in the door. And that’s what makes him so special; that
makes him such a joy to coach.”
(On how complex is the play calling at this point in camp) “I would like to say hopefully not
too complex. I would like to have the best balance of complexity where we can attack
defenses in a variety of different ways and put our guys in optimal situations with enough
simplification where our guys can go out there and play fast. So, I don’t know if there’s a
way for me to quantify how complex it is, but it’s certainly a balance that we’re trying to
strike. We want to be able to attack defenses in a variety of ways but still keep it simple
enough for guys to play fast.”
(On TE Nate Boerkircher) “Boerkircher’s another guy who you love his attitude. You see him
out there in the huddle, and we’re at the end of this practice, it’s hot out, it’s humid,
everyone’s sweating, everyone’s dying and he’s got the biggest smile on his face, ready to
call another run play in 13 personnel where we got three tight ends out there. And the
defense knows that it’s a run. We know it’s a run. It’s going to be a physical, violent play,
and he can’t be more excited to do it. So those are the things that fire you up, seeing a guy
like that with how eager he is to approach every single play.”
(On what he wants to see from the players over the next few days) “There are so many
things that we’re trying to get out of the guys in different drills and team situations out here,
but it’s really overarching when you say the biggest things, the overarching concepts that
we look at in the spring are really the same concepts we’re looking at in the fall. Now we
just have all the pads on, and they’re in a different setting when doing it. So, we’re still
looking at the fundamentals. We’re still looking at playing fast. We’re still looking at playing
attacking. We’re still looking at our play style. All the things that Liam [Head Coach Liam
Coen] probably talks about the team up here and who we are as our play style, our identity
as an offense, those are always the biggest things no matter the setting we’re in. Now, is
there more to it because now we’re able to practice different blocks in the pads?
Absolutely, but those foundational elements of our offense and our identity as an offense,
those never change.”
