Baker Mayfield Admitted He Didn't Prepare Well For An Interview With This NFL Team
Baker Mayfield has been interviewing with a lot of NFL teams in anticipation of the 2018 NFL Draft, which is set to begin next week. One interview apparently didn't go all that well, though.
The former Oklahoma star quarterback admitted in an interview with Sports Illustrated that he didn't prepare enough for an interview with the Los Angeles Chargers. He didn't study the playbook as much as he should have.
Mayfield, though, also admitted that he needs to prioritize his team. He apparently feels that other NFL teams are more likely to select him.
From SI.com:
One day before the workout, the Chargers—the team that McShay imagined drafting Mayfield in the second half of the first round—had asked him to go to lunch with a handful of staffers, including offensive coordinator Ken Whisenhunt. (The presence of all those Chargers employees was all the more flattering considering the timing: Free agency had just begun, and that’s typically an all-hands-on-deck day in NFL offices.) Before their lunch, the Chargers had given Mayfield a handful of plays to study and then dissect—an exercise he had excelled at with other teams.
Asked afterward, though, how he felt he’d performed in the Chargers meeting, Mayfield flashed a shade of vanity more often associated with LaRusso’s Karate Kid rival: cheap-shotting bad boy Johnny Lawrence. “I didn’t look at their playbook as much as a I should have,” Mayfield said. “It could have gone a little bit better . . . but at the same time, I’m prioritizing which playbooks I’m going to learn. No offense to them, but I’ve got a lot on my plate.”
OK then. The Chargers have the No. 17 overall pick in the first round.
Mayfield believes he'll go much sooner than that. He reportedly does not think he'll slip past Denver at No. 5.
Where do you see Mayfield ending up? He's going to find out soon enough. The first round is set for a week from tomorrow.
