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Baker Mayfield has incentives in his contract with the Carolina Panthers that allows him to get some of the money he sacrificed in his trade to the team. However, those “incentives” are difficult to achieve … too hard to be honest.
Field Yates of ESPN broke down the incentives, which include rewards for playing time, team offense, completion offense and a Pro Bowl appearance.
In the playing time incentives alone, it's easy to say that Mayfield is unlikely to get them. There's $2.1 million on the line here, but in order for the former Cleveland Browns QB to qualify, the Panthers must at least win 10 games and make the playoffs. Carolina won just five games last season, so asking the, to double that production might be too difficult–let alone reaching and winning in the divisional round, conference championship and Super Bowl.
Baker Mayfield has a chance to earn back the $3.5M in salary he gave up as part of the trade to Carolina through a variety of incentives. They breakdown as follows: pic.twitter.com/EBDuSYKO7h
— Field Yates (@FieldYates) July 19, 2022
Let's not even go to the team offense incentives. After all, the Panthers ranked in the bottom five of total yards and points last season. Are they really expecting Baker Mayfield to transform them into an elite offense when he struggled to do it with the Browns?
Mayfield has yet to make it to the Pro Bowl in his career as well, and while he might be motivated and hungrier after his Browns exit, it's unknown if he'll get a ton of opportunities to show what he can do. He'll be competing with Sam Darnold for the starting job, and it certainly won't be easy.
The 27-year-0old QB took a $3.5 million paycut to get his trade to the Panthers done, but with those hilariously unattainable incentives, it might be better if he consider the money as a necessary sacrifice to continue his career.
