Following constant upheaval, the Mayfields have found a home for the foreseeable future.
Baker Mayfield signed a three-year, $100 million deal to stay with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. After playing for four teams in the last three seasons, the quarterback and his wife, Emily, will stay in Florida.
Emily commemorated the news by posting photos of her wearing a Buccaneers sweater lifted up to show her baby bump. The couple announced in December that she’s pregnant with their first child due in April.
“Here to stay,” Emily wrote on Instagram.
Mayfield spent four seasons with the Cleveland Browns before getting dumped for Deshaun Watson in 2022. He played seven games for the Carolina Panthers before finishing the season with the Los Angeles Rams.
The former Heisman Trophy contract signed a one-year with Tampa Bay last offseason. Most onlookers saw him as a short-term placeholder in a rebuilding year before the team drafted a new quarterback in 2024.
Instead, Mayfield led the Buccaneers to an NFC South title with a career-high 4,044 passing yards and 28 touchdowns. He discussed the rough road he and Emily faced leading up to this week’s huge extension.
“There were a lot of dark times that we went through to get here, and to have the support, I think it’s extremely important that you can have to lean on at all times,” Mayfield said Wednesday, per ESPN’s Jenna Laine. “Not that I was very good at leaning on her at all times — I carry a lot of that weight on myself — but she has always been the support piece and has always believed in me.”
He praised Emily for being there on “good days and bad days” and called it “a really exciting time in our lives.”