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Browns quarterback Baker Mayfield warms up before a game earlier this season. (John Kuntz, cleveland.com)
CLEVELAND, Ohio – Baker Mayfield is not one of the best NFL quarterbacks at this stage of his career.
Mayfield is the 16th QB of the NFL according to Pro Football Focus statistics. More traditional measures have it near the bottom of the NFL. He is 31st in percentage of completion (58.3), 31st in yards per attempt (6.6) and 29th in pass mark (78.9).
Despite this, the Browns believe they have their franchise guy. That means he should become one of the NFL's top quarterbacks, like Chiefs Patrick Mahomes, his Mayfield counterpart this Sunday, fifth in the standings (115.3) this season.
The Browns have already had this kind of quarterback.
Seven former Browns quarterers finished one season in the top 10 rankings of the smugglers. All seven have done more than once and three of them have led the league in smuggling rankings.
To be clear, these seven former Browns were not all considered franchise quarters. But every quarter of the Browns franchise is among those seven. And if Mayfield wants to become what fans and Browns hope to become, he will surely have to join this list as an eighth member.
Here are the names already on the list:
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