Baker Mayfield has officially won the Carolina Panthers’ starting quarterback job. Not that it was much of a competition to begin with.
Mayfield beat out Sam Darnold, 2021’s worst non-rookie quarterback, an injured Matt Corral and XFL legend P.J. Walker for the job. Despite head coach Matt Rhule’s insistence this was an “open competition,” the position was the former No. 1 overall pick’s to lose all along. It only took 10 preseason game passes — seven from Mayfield and three from Darnold — for Rhule to come to an official decision.
