Trevor Lawrence Has The Loudest Voice in College Football

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🗓️ 11 September 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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In any normal year, Clemson quarterback Trevor Lawrence would already have an enormous voice in college football. He is the most well-known player in the country, a Heisman Trophy favorite, and is widely expected to be the first overall player taken in the 2021 NFL Draft. But 2020 is no ordinary year, in college football or anywhere else: and Lawrence is increasingly speaking out on issues ranging from the global pandemic to racial injustice. It’s not a role Lawrence has asked for, but it found him, as fellow players, the media, even the President of the United States want to hear what Lawrence has to say. Hallie Grossman joins the show to explain just how Lawrence found himself in the middle of every issue in college football, and how he plans on using his massive platform. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I do think I have a responsibility with my platform, with my voice, to support, to love
0:11.0	the people I care about. And ultimately, that's what I've tried to do. I haven't, I don't want to become an activist. I don't want people to look to me, to make a statement statement for everything or to try to change everything
0:22.6	because I mean I'm one person you know I can only do so much at the end of the day I'm a football
0:27.4	player that's what I love to do and hopefully can use football to change people's lives around me
0:32.3	that was clear That was Clemson quarterback Trevor Lawrence, speaking to college game days Tom Rinaldi yesterday, about what it's like being the most visible player in college football, when so much about the sport and society as a whole is under scrutiny.
0:55.0	It's not a role that Lawrence went looking for, but it found him, as suddenly fellow players, the media,
1:03.0	even the President of the United States are all asking the 20-year-old for his thoughts on everything,
1:09.0	from playing football during a pandemic,
1:11.5	to questions of racial inequality.
1:14.4	Today, ESPN's Hallie Grossman explains how Trevor Lawrence became the center of everything
1:20.3	in the college football universe and how he's using the enormous platform he's been given.
1:26.3	I'm Pablo Torre. It's Friday, September 11th. This is ESPN Daily.
1:34.8	Hallie Grossman, thank you for joining us on ESPN Daily. Thank you for having a problem. I'm excited to be here.
1:40.7	We're bringing you on today because you have this huge story on ESPN.com. And
1:46.5	it's timely because preseason number one Clemson is kicking off their season tomorrow
1:52.3	against the Wake Forest. And I think it's safe to say that no player has more eyes on them this
1:57.9	season than the person you profiled, junior quarterback Trevor Lawrence.
2:02.4	He's currently the favorite to win the Heisman Trophy. He's also widely expected to be the number
2:06.7	one pick in next year's NFL draft. And in any normal football season, he would be under
2:12.2	tremendous scrutiny just based on what he does on the field. But this is not an ordinary year, and you write the following
2:19.4	passage. Lawrence has captured us in a way that feels new and a little radical and more than a
2:24.9	little paradigm shifting. He is the face of college football in this turbulent 2020 season. He is
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