{"id":184090,"date":"2025-07-05T19:28:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T19:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/184090\/"},"modified":"2025-07-05T19:28:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T19:28:14","slug":"buccaneers-baker-mayfield-a-realistic-shot-at-mvp-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/184090\/","title":{"rendered":"Buccaneers’ Baker Mayfield A Realistic Shot At MVP In 2025?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Buccaneers’ Baker Mayfield A Realistic Shot At MVP In 2025?<\/a> originally appeared on Athlon Sports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The 2024 season was easily the best ever for Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Baker Mayfield,\u00a0<\/a>as he took his game to a level many didn’t think he had.<\/p>\n

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A total of 4,500 passing yards, 41 touchdowns, a completion percentage of 71.4, and a passing rating of 106.8, where all career-highs…and that was without Mike Evans for a month, and Chris Godwin out for the year after Week 7.<\/p>\n

He’s got both back now, fully healthy, a new receiver in Emeka Egbuka, Jalen McMillan, Cade Otton, and star back Bucky Irving. That is quite the list of weapons.<\/p>\n

But is it enough for Mayfield to win MVP in 2025? Yeah, that’s an outlandish question, but Bleacher Report gives its reasoning as to why Baker could.<\/p>\n

“The 2018 No. 1 overall pick was the league’s fourth-highest-rated passer while leading the Bucs to another division crown in 2024,” Bleacher Report writes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Baker Mayfield\u00a9 Vincent Carchietta-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

Mayfield has the weapons, the coach, and the offensive line to back up his 2024 season and potentially produce better.<\/p>\n

Now, improving on 4,500 yards and 41 touchdowns is a tough thing to do, but if Baker can get close to both of those numbers, while still winning 10+ games, and reeling in those pesky interceptions, yeah, he’ll be in the conversation (he was 11th in MVP voting last year).<\/p>\n

But he can’t have that month slump where the Buccaneers went 0-4; he’ll need to be more consistent.<\/p>\n

Do that, and who knows how the MVP race will pan out. Yes, it’s a long shot for him to even be in the race, but the NFL is a never-say-never league, and\u00a0 Mayfield has all the tools needed to thrust himself into the conversation.<\/p>\n

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Related: Buccaneers’ Baker Mayfield Placed on Impressive List<\/a><\/p>\n

Related: ‘He’s Still Got That Hunger!’ Buccaneers’ Yaya Diaby Praises Newcomer Haason Reddick<\/a><\/p>\n

This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports<\/a> on Jul 5, 2025, where it first appeared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Buccaneers’ Baker Mayfield A Realistic Shot At MVP In 2025? originally appeared on Athlon Sports. The 2024 season…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169754,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2077],"tags":[1842,8226,211,312,9341,699,702,7,4080,700,6,9081,704,250,2597,2596],"class_list":{"0":"post-184090","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa-bay-buccaneers","8":"tag-baker-mayfield","9":"tag-bleacher-report","10":"tag-buccaneers","11":"tag-bucky-irving","12":"tag-cade-otton","13":"tag-chris-godwin","14":"tag-emeka-egbuka","15":"tag-football","16":"tag-jalen-mcmillan","17":"tag-mike-evans","18":"tag-nfl","19":"tag-passing-yards","20":"tag-tampa-bay","21":"tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers","22":"tag-tampabay","23":"tag-tampabaybuccaneers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114802282219879115","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}