As has been anticipated for several weeks, the Panthers are expected to name recently-acquired quarterback Baker Mayfield as the team’s Week 1 starter, sources told MMQB‘s Albert Breer.
“I think it’ll come before, not after, this week’s game against the Bills. Maybe even Monday,” Breer wrote in his weekly column. “There won’t be any surprises. Baker Mayfield has pretty clearly been the best quarterback in camp.”
Breer noted both Mayfield’s on-field play and off-the-field maturity impressed Carolina’s coaching staff as it evaluated the team’s crop of QBs.
“The coaches sent him the playbook in early July during a no-contact period, and when he reported a couple weeks later, they were really impressed with the grasp he’d gained for a complex scheme without anyone else’s help,” Breer wrote.