Baker Mayfield is still in the learning process in his third year in the NFL. That’s something that Browns head coach Kevin Stefanski embraces and appreciates with his young quarterback.
Mayfield has had an up-and-down first week of Browns training camp as he adjusts to Stefanski’s new offense and learns about the revamped line in front of him. The coach sees the processing and the progress going on with No. 6.
“I think Baker, just like all the other guys, we are learning, and I think he is doing a really nice job,” Stefanski said via Zoom on Saturday. “You go down to the red zone period the other day, and we are running those plays for the first time and he is making them work. Then there are other ones that we have to do better at all positions. I think understanding that we are trying to build this thing and get the basics down is really important.”
The coach continued, noting the difficulty in facing the Browns defense unfiltered in practice reps,
“The other note for the quarterbacks in particular, is we make life hard on them in practice, and we are giving them tough looks and we are not giving them ‘outs'[jwplayer mBIzdhRS] in certain areas. It is definitely a tough position to play, and we want to make sure that we simulate that as much as we can in practice.”
The Browns open the season in Baltimore three weeks from Sunday, on Sept. 13th. There’s still a lot of learning for Mayfield to cram into those three weeks.