Baker Mayfield had no problems Wednesday talking about injuries, his poor performances or even a Cleveland Browns season that hasn’t gone according to plan.
When it came to the pending fate of Oklahoma death row inmate Julius Jones, whose innocence the quarterback has publicly and passionately fought for, however, Mayfield couldn’t contain his emotions.
“Yeah, it’s pretty rough to be honest with you,” Mayfield, who won a Heisman Trophy at the University of Oklahoma, told a gaggle of reporters as he choked up. “That isn’t something that’s easy to talk about.