Veteran quarterback Baker Mayfield went from undesirable to undeniable pretty quickly after leaving the Carolina Panthers. His latest primetime heroics in Week 2 put the exclamation point on what fans have known all along.
Mayfield is a guy — one of the NFL's premier closers under center. And the Panthers' previous regime mismanaged him horribly.
The Panthers were struggling to find the correct answers at football's most important position. Releasing 2015 NFL MVP Cam Newton set off a chain of events that played a leading role in Carolina's rapid descent to rock bottom under David Tepper's ownership.