SPARTANBURG, S.C. -- It seemed a bit odd Tuesday when newly acquired Carolina Panthers quarterback Baker Mayfield was chauffeured to Wofford College for training camp in a truck driven by linebacker Shaq Thompson.
Now we know why.
Smack talk.
Or "mess'' talk, as Thompson put it Friday when explaining how the former Cleveland Browns star became his passenger for the 90-minute drive from Charlotte, North Carolina.
"Bake texted me and DJax [Donte Jackson] talking some mess,'' Thompson said. "We were just going back and forth.