Grant Udinski evaluates Trevor Lawrence's growth in Jaguars' new offense

As Jacksonville Jaguars quarterback Trevor Lawrence described during offseason programs, Liam Coen's offense gives you all the answers, but it puts a lot on the players' plates as well, with how robust the playbook is and all the different options there are on one given play.

And with that, there can be a steep learning curve that the quarterback and the rest of the offense have to navigate as installs take place.

Earlier this week, Lawrence called Coen's offense the "most challenging" one he's been in, but added that as he gets more reps under his belt, his confidence and comfort operating within it are growing. Offensive coordinator Grant Udinski agrees as well.

"That's something we're working on that we'll probably always be working on," Udinski said of Lawrence thinking through the offense. "I would love to say that at some point we'll be there 100% and everything is just automatic, but we know football's a game of many variables."

Udinski continued, "So it's never going to be the case that he can just go out there and play, turning your mind completely off, but we are certainly moving closer and closer to that state. I think he mentioned something about that too, that pre-snap and post-snap, both of those start to get faster and faster and faster, and he's gotten there. So we're not there yet, and we know we have work to do, but his work over the course of training camp has led him to a spot where there's a noticeable difference in the way he plays or even in just the way he approaches a given play."

Beyond the schematic changes that the Jaguars are working through with Coen, Lawrence has also made some technical changes to his game, most notably his footwork.

The decision behind Lawrence altering his footwork is twofold. In one respect, within Coen's scheme, the quarterback's footwork is tied to the timing of the play, with the rhythm of the quarterback's feet connected to each progression or route being ran by the pass catchers.

The other footwork alteration made by Lawrence was switching up how he aligns to take the snap with his left foot, now his front foot instead of his right, as he had done previously.

As Coen described, going left foot up was Lawrence's decision and is something that a number of quarterbacks around the NFL are doing. Coen called it a "comfort thing" that helps with the quarterback's rhythm in the quick game and timing.

On the field, John Shipley of Jaguars on SI wrote in his recent camp observations article that Lawrence is improving, adding that under Coen, he's had "one of the best starts to a camp in his career."

"You can tell on certain reps and really certain operations when you're standing up there at the line and trying to make decisions, and protection calls, or you're trying to make an adjustment, just the timing of it and the confidence in which you do it, that's the real ownership of a play," Udinski said of Lawrence. "And typically when you have that type of ownership, the result ends up being good."

This article originally appeared on Jaguars Wire: Jaguars training camp: Udinski on Trevor Lawrence's growth in offense