Former Lake Travis and Cleveland Browns rookie quarterback Baker Mayfield has won one last award for his exploits on the college gridiron before he begins his first professional training camp next week.
Mayfield was named the Best College Athlete at Wednesday's ESPY Awards in Los Angeles, beating out Villanova basketball's Jalen Brunson, Stanford swimmer Katie Ledecky, and A’ja Wilson, from South Carolina's basketball team.
The 6-foot-1, 215-pound Mayfield put together a Heisman Trophy-winning campaign for the Oklahoma Sooners in 2017, completing 285 of his 404 throws (70.5 percent) for 4,627 yards and 43 touchdowns against six interceptions to cap off a four-year career that started at Texas Tech University.
During his three years at Oklahoma and one season with the Texas Tech Red Raiders, Mayfield completed 1,026 of his 1,497 attempts (68.5 percent) for 14,607 yards and 131 touchdowns against only 30 interceptions.
Mayfield has welcomed the opportunity to be a part of the Browns’ organization and Cleveland community as a whole since being selected with the No. 1 overall pick in the 2018 NFL Draft.
“I love it here,” Mayfield said. “First of all, the Haslam family makes it, no other place is like this from what I’ve heard. In all of my visits, I also noticed that as well. They’re here every day. You see them, so it’s a huge community feel and everybody here has their own job and what are we doing to make this team better kind of feel and Cleveland as a whole is a great sports town.”
