The Jacksonville Jaguars have spent this training camp making one thing impossible to miss: Trevor Lawrence and Parker Washington keep finding each other.
That connection has shown up again and again at the Miller Electric Center, where Washington has been one of the brightest pass-catching options on the field. He’s already gone from a sixth-round pick in the 2023 NFL Draft to a player Lawrence has trusted since the start, and the chemistry between the two looks stronger now than ever.
Lawrence and Washington have connected for at least one big play in each practice this summer, and Sunday brought another example. On one of the Jaguars’ last workouts before the preseason, the two hooked up for the day’s biggest play, coming only a few days after Washington was Lawrence’s most-targeted receiver in Friday’s scrimmage.
“Just consistency. I mean, the same guy every day.
We might not connect on every rep, but it's that dialogue and the communication every single time. And you know what you're going to get from him," Lawrence said after Sunday's practice.
The Jaguars took multiple shots down the field on Day 9 of camp, but Washington’s catch stood out above the rest. Lawrence said the play was built on the kind of back-and-forth they’ve developed over time.
"We had a rep, I don't know if you guys saw the deep shot today and we threw it, and routes on air right before it. And I told him, ‘Hey, hold this angle.
I'm going to throw out there.’ I kind of missed the throw a little bit and he went and made a good catch on the sideline and then we got the same exact rep in team," Lawrence said.
"He ran it the same exact way and I gave him a good throw where could run under it, so it's just little things like that where he's just really dependable. When you talk about something, he knows what to do, he knows what to expect, and you can trust him and he just keeps showing up every day.”
Washington’s rise has tracked with his role. He caught his first career touchdown from Lawrence as a rookie, added more production the following season when his workload grew, and then finished last year as the Jaguars’ leading receiver after another jump in responsibility.
Now he’s doing it again in camp, looking every bit like the reliable top option Jacksonville hoped he could become. With Washington entering a contract season, the bigger question may not be what he means for his own market. It may be what he means to Lawrence.
For a franchise quarterback guiding an ascending team, that kind of trust matters. Washington may even be Lawrence’s favorite target in what is one of the NFL’s deepest wide receiver rooms, and that sort of player is not easy to replace. The Jaguars have seen enough already to know the value is real, and they’d be wise to make the most of it sooner rather than later.
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