Tonight is Baker Mayfield\u2019s first time returning to a place where he resurrected his career.<\/p>\n
In late 2022, with Matthew Stafford injured, the Rams signed Mayfield after he was cut by the Carolina Panthers and seemingly was on the verge of being labeled a bust as a former No. 1 overall pick. Mayfield joined the team on Tuesday of a short week with L.A. set to play the Raiders on \u201cThursday Night Football,\u201d and despite only one short practice with his new team under his belt, he led a dramatic 98-yard game-winning drive in the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n
That game, and the rest of his month-long stint with the Rams, altered the course of Mayfield\u2019s career. He was inconsistent but showed enough promise that the Tampa Bay Buccaneers decided to take a chance on him after Tom Brady retired during the offseason. The rest is history. Mayfield now leads a playoff-contending Bucs squad into Los Angeles, firmly entrenched as Tampa Bay\u2019s franchise quarterback.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tonight is Baker Mayfield\u2019s first time returning to a place where he resurrected his career. In late 2022,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302684,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-302683","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}