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Baker Mayfield's beefs: Stories behind the slights that motivate the Cleveland Browns QB

Quarterback Baker Mayfield has kept a list before.

On it, he included those who had slighted him or doubted him. Starting out as undersized walk-on at Texas Tech, Mayfield has always used slights and doubts as fuel, providing him with the edge that propelled him all the way to the NFL, as the No. 1 overall draft selection of the Cleveland Browns last year. Intensely loyal but also doggedly unforgiving, Mayfield doesn't bury the hatchet easily, either, but Arizona Cardinals coach Kliff Kingsbury, his former adversary from Texas Tech, whom Mayfield faces off against Sunday, is one notable exception.