Jaguars quarterback Trevor Lawrence has faced the Bengals three times in his NFL career and none of those contests has ended with a Jacksonville victory.
The Bengals won at home by a field goal in Lawrence’s rookie season in a game best remembered as the one that was followed by then-coach Urban Meyer staying behind to have a little fun at a local bar rather than travel home with his team. The Bengals won in overtime behind Jake Browning in 2023 and Browning came in to rally them to a win again after Joe Burrow was injured late in last season’s game in Cincinnati.
Those results make the Bengals the only AFC team that Lawrence has not beaten since he entered the league as the first overall pick in 2021 and he acknowledged that’s something he’s aware of during a Wednesday press conference.
“We gotta make it turn. We gotta go win it,” Lawrence said. “It’s definitely something that, when you’re going into the game, you think about. You’re not sitting there thinking about it every second of the day and all week, but I’ve thought about it. It’s a team that we haven’t beat. We lost a tough one there early in the season last year and that’s one that we definitely we want back. All those things you think about and you move on. You have to put your energy toward something that actually does something for you, which is preparing and getting ready to go.”
Both teams are 2-1 heading into Sunday’s game, so it’s an opportunity for the Jags to get an early leg up in the AFC playoff race in addition to getting Lawrence a clean sweep of the conference.
