Baker Mayfield is showing up for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. What does that mean for his future?

Don’t look now, but Baker Mayfield may have rejuvenated his NFL career.

After a season in which he almost ran himself out of the league, Mayfield somehow stumbled into one of the few starting jobs that was open for business after Tom Brady retired in Tampa Bay. All he needed to do was win the job from Kyle Trask — a player the team has shown no confidence in other than simply continuing to pay him a regular salary.

Once that happened, expectations were still pretty low, but that’s beginning to change.

Mayfield’s NFL career has been a strange rollercoaster. Once the surprise No. 1 overall pick in 2018, he set a short-lived rookie record with 27 touchdowns despite not starting in Week 1 for the Browns.

Baker Mayfield Rookie Season

The following year was an organizational disaster, but in the second half of his third season, Mayfield looked like the real deal, earning an 85.7 overall PFF grade on the season and grading out as one of the best quarterbacks in football in the second half of the year.