How Baker Mayfield ranks in Cleveland Browns history

Passing Yards

When it comes to passing yards, historically speaking, modern quarterbacks have a significant advantage over previous generations of quarterbacks. To simply put it, as anyone who watches NFL knows, the ball gets thrown significantly more now, plus there are more games.

That combination should bode well for Baker Mayfield’s chances of finishing number one on this list. Since 1999, he only ranks second in passing yards to Tim Couch, but he is behind a few more names on the all-time list.

"1) Brian Sipe (1974-1983): 23,713 Passing Yards 2) Otto Graham (1946-1955): 23,584 3) Bernie Kosar (1985-1993): 21,904 4) Frank Ryan (1962-1968): 13,361 5) Tim Couch (1999-2003): 11,131 6) Bill Nelsen (1968-1972): 9,725 7) Milt Plum (1957-1961): 8,914 8) Mike Phipps (1970-1976): 7,700 9) Baker Mayfield (2018-Present): 7,552 10) Vinny Testaverde (1993-1995): 7,255"

Baker Mayfield takes the ninth spot on this list and realistically has an opportunity this next season to jet him up to that fifth spot of all time. Mayfield only needs 3,579 passing yards to tie Tim Couch for the fifth spot on this list. In both of his seasons so far with the Browns, he has racked up 3,725 and 3,827 yards respectively. He should be nearly a lock to take the fifth spot on the list.

If Mayfield continues to average the 260 yards per game he has been putting so far up in his career, then he should be able to average 4,166.6 yards per 16 games. With those numbers, it should take him only four seasons to pass up Brian Sipe for the record.

Considering that Mayfield has three seasons left on his rookie contract if the team chooses to pick up his fifth-year option, that seems a very likely scenario.