TAMPA, Fla. \u2014\u00a0Football is fun. At least at Baker Mayfield\u2019s annual youth football camp it is.<\/p>\n
Boys and girls ages six to 15 filled the Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ indoor practice facility. Under the guidance of the Bucs starting quarterback, the kids ran through a variety of drills. And at times, it was hard to tell who was having more fun – the kids or Mayfield.<\/p>\n
\u201cI remember being their age, looking up to guys who played my position and wanting to be around them and have fun and just enjoy it,\u201d Mayfield said.<\/p>\n
There were Baker Mayfield jerseys everywhere. He was the favorite of the day. Mayfield appreciates the support and loves that he can give back to the community that he is raising his family in.<\/p>\n
\u201cGetting more people involved, getting everybody involved,\u201d he said. \u201cThe more, the better. The more the merrier when it comes to football.\u201d<\/p>\n
One of the camp participants sporting a Mayfield jersey was 12-year-old Skylar Vanvaerenbergh. She wants to play flag football in the future and was soaking up all the knowledge at the camp. And of course, she had to rep her favorite player.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s the best player and he has such great leadership,\u201d Skylar said.<\/p>\n
Mayfield remembers attending camps as a kid and wants these young-ins to have a similar experience. He once dreamed of playing the NFL and now he is. He knows a lot do dreams were born at his camp.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s the best part,\u201d Mayfield said. \u201cAnd when I say that\u2019s surreal, that\u2019s the best part about it. I remember going to different football camps as a kid. I loved it, so to be able to do it and pay it forward\u2019s awesome.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. \u2014\u00a0Football is fun. At least at Baker Mayfield\u2019s annual youth football camp it is. Boys and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298765,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1238,1236,276,13013,115,110,1237,135,4547,137,136,835],"class_list":["post-298764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-app-sports","tag-florida-sports","tag-hillsborough-county","tag-katherine-smith","tag-news","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-bay-bucs","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}