Baker Mayfield doesn’t have the greatest reputation around the league.
He has that frat boy mentality, which doesn’t really gel with NFL players. Plus, he has a tendency to talk about other players’ money, and that is a big no-no in the league. Players do not like people, especially QBs pocket watching.
It is why the Browns are having a hard time trading him. The Panthers have been mentioned as one of the teams interested.
Baker Mayfield said he believed the Seahawks were his likeliest destination, but an NFL insider has other thoughts.
Appearing on “The Pat McAfee Show,” NFL Media’s Ian Rapoport talked about why the Seahawks seemed to be an unlikely destination for the Browns quarterback — despite what Mayfield said on a podcast earlier this week.
“He identified the Seahawks as his likely team,” Rapoport said. “That was a little surprising to me because I haven’t gotten the sense at all that the Seahawks are that interested. At the salary, they’re not that interested. They’ve added Drew Lock, they’ve added [re-signed] Geno Smith, they may take a quarterback in the draft because I know they’ve done a lot of homework. I think they had Desmond Ridder in on Wednesday.”
Then, Rapoport named a different NFC team he thought would be a better fit for Mayfield.
“To me, the Carolina Panthers seem to be the most likely spot for Baker Mayfield, or maybe a team brings him in as a high-money backup, like the Tampa Bay Buccaneers — that would make some sense to me.”
As soon as Robby Anderson saw that, he immediately said hell no.
When they gave him a chance to walk back on the comments, he instead doubled down and said he did not want Baker Mayfield as his quarterback in 2022.
If you are the Panthers’ front office, what do you do with this information?
Flip the pages for Robby going in hard on Baker.