Lawrence falls, goes from 'panic' to winning Jags TD

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Trevor Lawrence panicked.

Liam Coen thought: Throw it away.

Travis Hunter had nary thought what was going on.

It was a chaotic fewer seconds for the Jacksonville Jaguars, but by the clip it was implicit Lawrence was successful the extremity portion and the Jaguars had a 31-28 victory implicit the Kansas City Chiefs astatine EverBank Stadium connected Monday night.

"It was a crazy, brainsick finish," Lawrence said.

That's astir apt the champion mode to picture his 1-yard touchdown tally aft helium fell erstwhile close defender Patrick Mekari stepped connected his ft -- though Coen offered up "goofy." Lawrence tried to get backmost up, stumbled again, past got to his feet with the volition of throwing the shot distant earlier seeing a lane and taking off, yet diving into the extremity portion with 23 seconds left.

It whitethorn person been an unconventional decorativeness but it was a important infinitesimal for the maligned Lawrence, who'd had a unsmooth commencement to the play portion learning his 3rd discourtesy nether his 3rd caput manager since the franchise selected him No. 1 successful 2021. His 2nd touchdown tally capped Jacksonville's comeback from a 14-0 shortage and showed a nationalist assemblage helium tin marque the Jaguars morganatic contenders successful the AFC.

"It's a goofy finish, but what a pugnacious infinitesimal for him to beryllium capable to accidental helium wasn't going to lose, and that's benignant of truly what it comes down to," Coen said. "He wasn't going to suffer and helium made an unbelievable idiosyncratic effort that hopefully tin proceed to springboard us."

Lawrence completed 18 of 25 passes for 221 yards with a touchdown and an interception, with his champion propulsion a 33-yarder to Brian Thomas Jr. connected a 3rd down connected the game-winning drive. Three plays later, helium took a drawback from the 1-yard line, fell, stumbled again, got up, ran to his left, broke a tackle, and dove for the TD.

"I mean, I conscionable panicked, honestly," Lawrence said. "I was trying to get up to get the shot retired of my hands. We didn't person immoderate timeouts near truthful I was truly going to conscionable basal up and motorboat it retired the backmost of the extremity zone."

It was fitting that Lawrence won the crippled with a tally due to the fact that helium said aft past week's crippled against San Francisco that helium felt similar helium missed immoderate opportunities to tally the ball. He ended up starring the Jaguars successful rushing Monday nighttime (54 yards connected 10 carries), which included a 10-yard TD tally successful the 3rd quarter. His 2 scramble TDs against the Chiefs equaled his full scramble TDs successful his archetypal 4 seasons.

"That's thing I've realized conscionable the archetypal mates weeks. I deliberation I've had immoderate opportunities to beryllium capable to widen plays utilizing my legs," Lawrence said. "That's our top plus connected 3rd down too guys getting unfastened successful coverage. The antiaircraft schemes are truly good, and sometimes they screen each the guys, and our O-line has been blocking truly well, truthful being capable to escape, usage my legs, marque the defence support the full tract ... made a large interaction for america tonight."

Lawrence besides had zero off-target throws for conscionable the 2nd clip successful this career. He did that portion missing choky extremity Brenton Strange (hip) for the full 2nd fractional and losing halfway Rober...