Trevor Lawrence is preaching togetherness so we can have college football.
When Trevor Lawrence speaks, the college football world better listen up.
Until he declares for the 2021 NFL Draft, Lawrence will be the face of college football. The 6-foot-6 pro-style quarterback has won all but one of his starts in his two years with the Clemson Tigers. As a true freshman in 2018, Clemson won the College Football Playoff. As a sophomore in 2019, the Tigers came up one game short, falling to Joe Burrow’s LSU Tigers in the national title bout.
With the 2020 college football season on life support, after the MAC decided against having a season, Lawrence is one of several college stars speaking out on the importance of having a season. Here is what he tweeted out on Sunday: “Let’s work together to create a situation where we can play the game that all of us love. Not divide and argue. There is a way forward.”
Is Trevor Lawrence’s voice strong enough to keep college football alive?
Lawrence has been especially active on Twitter in the last 24 hours. Here are the tweets he’s either sent out himself or quote-tweeted on the subject of how badly he and other college football stars want to have a season. You only get to be the big man on campus once. You only get to play with your best friends for life on a college football gridiron for so long. No wonder he’s all-in here.
What we are getting out of Lawrence’s Twitter feed is consistent and to the point: He wants there to be football. Whether he’s tweeting something out himself, quote-tweeting fellow Power 5 starting quarterback Sean Clifford of the Penn State Nittany Lions or the lead college football analyst for FOX in Joel Klatt, there is absolutely no denying where Lawerence stands on the issue.
There have been many doom-and-gloom headlines about there not being a college football season by many members of the media who cover it. It’s understandable that they’re reporting on what they’re being told by sources because it’s part of their jobs. However, the pessimistic nature of it all isn’t helping anyone. If we don’t have college football, then we won’t have college football.
Lawrence could have opted out of the 2020 season like other blue-chip prospects like Clifford’s former Penn State teammate Micah Parsons, former Minnesota Golden Gophers wide receiver Rashod Bateman and former Miami Hurricanes defensive lineman Gregory Rousseau. He might be a lock to go No. 1 in the 2021 NFL Draft, but Lawrence is dead-set on playing this 2020 season.
Ultimately, it’s not up to him, as this will be decided by the university presidents. They may not want the liability on their hands of playing football in the age of the coronavirus. They may argue player safety, but isn’t being on-campus where the players can be tested regularly safer than being anywhere else? The Power 5 conferences have life-changing decisions to make this week.
Regardless of how this all shakes out, Lawrence let it be known he undoubtedly wants to play.
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