Brett Favre has a truly scorching hot take on Clemson’s Trevor Lawrence
By John Buhler
Brett Favre’s take on Trevor Lawrence is so painful, you will want to gouge your eyes out.
There are bad takes and then there is whatever Brett Favre said regarding Trevor Lawrence.
The former Clemson star quarterback is expected to go No. 1 overall to the Jacksonville Jaguars in the 2021 NFL Draft. He is seen as the best quarterback prospect since Andrew Luck. Favre might be a Pro Football Hall of Famer and a Super Bowl champion, but he would rather take the 2020 Heisman Trophy winner DeVonta Smith out of Alabama if he was the Jaguars general manager.
“I don’t know if Jacksonville, in my opinion, I don’t know if quarterback is their immediate need,” Favre told TMZ. “I would take DeVonta Smith. I think you go with a guy like that. Nothing against Trevor Lawrence but I think you can find a free agent guy or a guy in the latter rounds or mid-rounds in the draft.”
“But, you just don’t find a guy like a — this guy could be a Jerry Rice. He could be different. A Randy Moss. A total game-changer.”
What good is Jerry Rice if you do not have Joe Montana throwing him the ball?
For as much as we love Gardner Minshew, he is not the franchise quarterback Jacksonville football fans are hoping for. He is good, but he is not a transcendent talent like Lawrence. If you pass on Lawrence for the next Jerry Rice, he better be the next Jerry Rice or you will be watching NFL games on your butt on your couch at home. Trent Baalke cannot mess this No. 1 overall pick up.
Smith was a tremendous college football player. He was on the receiving end of second-and-26 from Tua Tagovailoa in the 2018 National Championship game. Smith became the third Heisman winner in Alabama football history and the first wide receiver to do it since Desmond Howard struck a pose back with the 1991 Michigan Wolverines. Howard did win Favre his lone Super Bowl.
Ultimately, Baalke is not going to lose his job for taking Lawrence No. 1 overall over the likes of Ohio State’s Justin Fields, Oregon’s Penei Sewell or Smith. Lawrence is the consensus No. 1 overall pick and no one will rip the pick to shreds if he ends up busting. The logic beyond taking Lawrence No. 1 overall is sound. Taking Smith with the top pick is lunacy.
Smith will be a top-10 pick in the upcoming draft, but by no means can he be the first player taken.
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