Clemson quarterback Trevor Lawrence has been projected as the No. 1 pick in the 2021 NFL Draft ever since he set foot on the Tigers campus. Lawrence has lived up to the hype and more throughout his career.

Once again, the Clemson quarterback has the Tigers in the Playoff and competing for a national championship. However, former ESPN analyst and Super Bowl winning quarterback Trent Dilfer says that even Lawrence can be messed up in the NFL. Dilfer joined Ryen Rusillo’s podcast to discuss the Clemson signal caller.

“No, he can still be messed up,” Dilfer said of Lawrence. “I used to say this when I was on ESPN, but quarterback is the most influential position in sports but it’s also the most dependent position in sports. You can’t be LeBron James at quarterback. You can’t put the team on your back. You’re seeing why you can’t do this right now with Deshaun Watson.

“If Lawrence goes to a place with poor offensive vision, and so much of it is scheme-based in the NFL. But if he goes to a place with a poor offensive line and you don’t have at least two other Top-50 players in the league, which usually need to be a pass catcher and a runner, and then you need a Top-100-200 either tight end or slot receiver – if you don’t have those things, yeah, he could be screwed up.

“He’s fantastic. I am bullish on Trevor as anybody, and I’ve known him since he was 15 years old. He does have flaws. The narrative started going 12 months ago where they were saying, ‘oh, he has no flaws – he’s perfect!’ No, he’s not.

“He’s super long in his delivery where he has a big front stride and the ball goes way back, left arm gets real wide. He’s found a way, because he’s such an elite athlete, to quicken that up, but it’s still really long. So when you watch him at Clemson and the pocket gets tight, that’s when you see a lot of his errors because he’s so long. The antithesis of that is Tua and Aaron Rodgers -the guys who can play in a phone booth in London.

“The other thing is he gets overly confident in his arm. He has a very good arm, but he doesn’t have the greatest arm in the history of football. On a scale of 1-10: he’s got an 8. He tries to make throws that are 10 throws too often. What you’re going to see, when his receiver isn’t so superior to the opposing corner, you’re going to start writing checks your body can’t cash.”

While Dilfer is poking holes in Lawrence’s game, there’s a strong chance he’ll be the No. 1 pick in the upcoming NFL Draft.

The Clemson quarterback has thrown for 2,751 yards and 22 touchdowns this season entering the Playoff.