Baker Mayfield got the better of Mason Rudolph in their college rivalry. Now Mayfield gets the chance to get the better of Rudolph in a pro rivalry, and if he doesn’t, the Cleveland Browns’ season is sunk.
The Browns play the Pittsburgh Steelers on Thursday Night Football. Call it the Rust Belt version of Bedlam.
Rudolph and Mayfield were Bedlam contemporaries, record-setting quarterbacks at OSU and OU, respectively, in 2015-17. Mayfield’s Sooners won all three games and went on to win the Big 12 championship each year.
But now it’s Rudolph who quarterbacks the tradition-rich organization and Mayfield who quarterbacks the team trying to crash the party.