[Senator Clay Davis]

Why would I be against the fifth year option? Even if Lawrence had been playing at a league average level (and he pretty much has) the cost of the fifth year option is still meaningfully below what a league average QB contract costs. Now, I have said a lot that I wouldn't feel great signing him long term, and that I'd probably rather play out the fifth year and see what happens there. He hasn't come close to living up to the can't miss QB he was claimed to be, but picking up the fifth year option would have been a no brainier. He'd be acceptable value at that price range.

At this point QB contracts are what they are, besides rookies on poverty deals only Mahomes is truly worth it. Is this contract great right now? Not really. Could it be? Maybe. Do the Jags have no other choice cause if he went to market he'd get this deal for sure, and they'd have to go back into QB draft roulette where the Michael Penix's and Bo Nix's of the world go 50 picks earlier than they should? Yup. Good news for the Jags is that as long as his floor remains what we've seen so far QB desperation will make it easy to trade him later on for a fair return.