The Cleveland Browns guaranteed Baker Mayfield $18.8 million for the 2022 season last year when they picked up his fifth-year option. He was a part of the first draft class for which the fifth-year option was fully guaranteed for both cap and performance in addition to just injury upon its being exercised, rather than upon the start of the new league year of his fifth year.
And yet the odds of him being on the Browns’ 53-man roster are slim, something he emphasized during an appearance on the Ya Never Know podcast with someone named Mike. While the episode was recorded sometime ago, it was published yesterday, and he had a lot to say about his time in Cleveland, which he expects is at an end.