Carolina Panthers owner David Tepper is, above all, a businessman—and an overwhelmingly successful one at that. So the guy knows about investments, maybe even the football ones sometimes.
On Friday, Joseph Person and Zac Jackson—of The Athletic‘s Carolina and Cleveland Browns beats, respectively—had published their chronicles on what was a two-month back-and-forth for quarterback Baker Mayfield. The report detailed the what, when and how of the elongated negotiations—a process described as a “game of chicken.”
Ultimately, Mayfield ended up with the Panthers this week—as the teams settled on compensation (a conditional 2024 fifth-round pick) and payouts on Mayfield’s $18.8 salary. And it was the latter, as Person and Jackson describe, that held up the deal for this long.
