Baker Mayfield: QB · Oklahoma · #6.
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Baker Mayfield
Picks you apart underneath and protects the ball. Played for two head coaches in three seasons at Oklahoma. Davey O'Brien in 2017 made it three straight seasons on the honors list. On tape: 598 passing yards and 5 passing TD against Oklahoma State, Week 10, 2017.
Play style
High-percentage passer who protects the ball. Loses the matchup on improvisation.
Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long
Where the completions actually land
65.6% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 34.3% conversion-per-dropback — 42.9% of completions land short of the sticks.
Where completions land is fact — whether incompletions were aimed deep is intent, not recorded here, so this card counts completions only. checkdown by design
Short-yardage / goal-line · enumeration
Who gets the tough yard
6 of 10 on 3rd/4th-and-2-or-less (60.0%). 4 of the team's 24 inside-the-5 carries (16.7%).
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
FOX 4 News Dallas-Fort Worth Nov 3
On3 Oct 29
ABC News Oct 28Swipe the table sideways for more columns.
Game log · Week-by-week
2017 season · 14 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 56-7vs UTEP | 19/20 | 329 | 3 | 0 | 16.5 | 97.9 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 2 | W 31-16@ No. 2 Ohio State | 27/35 | 386 | 3 | 0 | 11.0 | 87.5 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 3 | W 56-14vs Tulane | 17/27 | 331 | 4 | 0 | 12.3 | 93.3 | 4 TD passes |
| Wk 4 | W 49-41@ Baylor | 13/19 | 283 | 3 | 0 | 14.9 | 90.0 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 6 | L 31-38vs Iowa State | 24/33 | 306 | 2 | 0 | 9.3 | 91.8 | Clean 2-TD game |
| Wk 7 | W 29-24vs Texas | 17/27 | 302 | 2 | 1 | 11.2 | 69.1 | |
| Wk 8 | W 42-35@ Kansas State | 32/41 | 410 | 2 | 1 | 10.0 | 94.6 | |
| Wk 9 | W 49-27vs Texas Tech | 22/34 | 281 | 4 | 1 | 8.3 | 81.7 | 4 TD passes |
| Wk 10 | W 62-52@ No. 11 Oklahoma State | 24/36 | 598 | 5 | 2 | 16.6 | — | Season-high 598 yds |
| Wk 11 | W 38-20vs No. 8 TCU | 18/27 | 333 | 3 | 0 | 12.3 | — | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 12 | W 41-3@ Kansas | 20/30 | 257 | 3 | 0 | 8.6 | 83.5 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 13 | W 59-31vs West Virginia | 14/17 | 281 | 3 | 0 | 16.5 | 98.9 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 14 | W 41-17vs No. 10 TCU | 15/23 | 243 | 4 | 0 | 10.6 | 93.8 | 4 TD passes |
 Bowl | L 48-54vs No. 3 Georgia | 23/35 | 287 | 2 | 1 | 8.2 | 64.0 | |
| Total | 285/404 | 4627 | 43 | 6 | 11.5 | — |
Week 10 · 2017
W 62-52
598 yds · 5 TD · 2 INT
Edged out Oklahoma State on the road in a shootout.
With M. Brown — 9 rec · 265 yds · 2 TD · A. Seibert — 47.5 yards per punt · 2 punts · 1 inside the 20
The plays that mattered most
Pass Profile · Completions by yards gained (PBP)
Adjusted ANY/A, sack rate, and where the yards came from
Totals here are the box score's. Play-by-play lists 393 passing plays (277 completions) against the box score's 404 attempts (285 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
11.741 of 205 QBsSack rate
6.0%105 of 205 QBsSacked on 6.0% of dropbacks (105 of 205) — and still 1 of 205 in Adjusted ANY/A.
Adjusted ANY/A uses full-season box-score totals (attempts, yards, TDs, INTs); sack rate is play-by-play-derived.
Short
0–9 ydsMiddle
10–19 ydsDeep
20+ ydsOverall 70.5% completion on 404 attempts · 76 deep completions averaging 34.3 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2017 baseline
No situation moves him more than 22 percentile points from his baseline.
Deltas are vs. this player’s own season baseline, never a league average. League sack rate by down is shown as context because sack attribution isn’t incompletion-denominated.
Splits · Per-game
2017 season · 14 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 310 | 3.2 | 12.5 | 0.2 |
| Road5g | 387 | 3.2 | 12.2 | 0.6 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 318 | 2.7 | 11.9 | 0.3 |
| Weeks 8+7g | 343 | 3.4 | 11.8 | 0.6 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Lincoln Riley
Pass share
44.9%
433 pass / 531 run
Plays / game
68.9
14 games
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Player standing · 2017
The trophy is in the case.
Career, closed
Gone at No. 1 overall.
How it ended
Three seasons at Oklahoma, 12,292 passing yards, the Maxwell Award (2017) — drafted at No. 1 overall by the Cleveland Browns.
Honored in a first season.
Trophy case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
National awards
Maxwell, Walter Camp, Davey O'Brien +1 more
2017 season
ALL-BIG 12 · 1ST TEAM
All-Big 12 1st team (2017)
Coaching lineage · 2013–2017
3 coachesPlayed for 3 head coaches at 2 schools: Kliff Kingsbury, Bob Stoops and Lincoln Riley.
Next stop · NFL
Cleveland BrownsEntering 9th NFL season
Cleveland BrownsEntering 9th NFL season
