Jacksonville Jaguars Quarterback Trevor Lawrence left Sunday’s game against the Houston Texans with a concussion he suffered after a brutal hit by linebacker Azeez Al-Shaair.
Lawrence was down for a moment before he could walk to a cart and be taken off the field. Mac Jones played the rest of the game and Jacksonville fell to Houston 23-20.
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Jacksonville Jaguars quarterback Trevor Lawrence, No. 16, kisses his wife Marissa Lawrence following a combined NFL football training camp session between the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Jacksonville Jaguars on Thursday, August 15, 2024 at EverBank Stadium’s Miller Electric Center in Jacksonville, Florida. (Corey Perrine/Florida Times-Union / USA TODAY NETWORK)
Marissa LaurensTrevor’s wife, thanked those who contacted her.
“Thank you for all the texts and prayers,” she wrote in a post on her Instagram Stories. “I’m just taking the time to make sure he’s doing well and getting healthy, but we appreciate all the love and support.”
The Jaguars quarterback also had a health update in a post on X.
“Thank you to everyone who reached out/prayed for me. I’m home and feeling better. It means a lot, thank you all,” he wrote on X.
The goal on Lawrence led to a major brawl between players from both teams. Al-Shaair was ejected for the contact, while Jaguars cornerback Jarrian Jones was ejected for his role in the fight.
Jacksonville Jaguars quarterback Trevor Lawrence and his wife Marissa sit on the field after training camp at the Miller Electric Performance Center in Jacksonville, Florida, on July 27, 2023. (Nathan Ray Seebeck-USA TODAY Sports)
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Jaguars players ripped off Al-Shaair for the goal.
“That was a gut punch on his part,” Josh Allen-Hines said: via ESPN. “At the end of the day he’s just playing football, but again, the way we’ve changed the rules of how we play, we discuss these things.
“We talk about these things. We know how to play football. A few years ago that would have been a big hit, but now it wasn’t a good move for him. I’m not going to sit there and say: does he deserve to be suspended? or not? That wasn’t smart at the time.’
Jacksonville tight end Evan Engram called Al-Shaair’s press “dirty”, and he felt he had to defend Lawrence at that moment.
Jacksonville Jaguars quarterback Trevor Lawrence, No. 16, leaves the field on a cart after being injured by a late hit by Houston Texans linebacker Azeez Al-Shair during the first half of an NFL football game on Sunday, Dec. 1, 2024, in Jacksonville, Florida. (AP Photo/John Raoux)
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“It was just instinct,” he said via the Jaguars site. “It didn’t feel like a clean hit, so just stand up for him. I saw him slide and then I saw the hit. I just knew it was wrong. I knew it was a dirty play.”
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