{"id":647249,"date":"2026-01-02T04:43:30","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T04:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/647249\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T04:43:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T04:43:30","slug":"baker-mayfield-week-18-preview-vs-the-panthers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/647249\/","title":{"rendered":"Baker Mayfield Week 18 Preview vs. the Panthers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Baker Mayfield will face a middle-of-the-pack pass defense in Week 18 (Saturday at 4:30 p.m. ET), versus the Carolina Panthers. The Panthers are ranked 14th in terms of passing yards conceded, at 204.3 per game.<\/p>\n<p>Mayfield has thrown for 3,490 yards (218.1 yards per game) this season while completing 62.8% of his throws for 25 touchdowns and 10 picks. In addition, Mayfield has 351 yards rushing (21.9 yards per game) on 51 attempts, and Mayfield has hit paydirt one time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/affiliates.routy.app\/route\/62735?affId=3147&amp;ts=5002712&amp;pa=1441&amp;pb=959275&amp;cid=71wCHxoaCE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Watch this game on Fubo<\/a> (Regional restrictions may apply).<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the game on <a href=\"https:\/\/98rock.iheart.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">98 Rock<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mayfield vs. the Panthers<\/p>\n<p>Mayfield vs the Panthers (since 2021): 4 GP \/ 244.2 PASS YPG \/ 8 PASS TD<br \/>\nCarolina has yet to allow an opposing quarterback to register 300 or more passing yards in an outing this year.<br \/>\n12 players have thrown one or more touchdowns in a game against the Panthers this season.<br \/>\nCarolina has allowed five players to throw at least two touchdowns in a matchup in 2025.<br \/>\nOnly two players have thrown for three or more TDs in an outing against the Panthers this season.<br \/>\nMayfield will square off against the NFL&#8217;s 14th-ranked pass defense this week. The Panthers allow 204.3 passing yards per contest.<br \/>\nThe Panthers have the No. 8 defense in the NFL in passing TDs allowed, giving up 19 this season (1.2 per game).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/affiliates.routy.app\/route\/62736?affId=3147&amp;ts=5002712&amp;pa=1422&amp;pb=959284&amp;cid=71wCHxoaCE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Catch every NFL touchdown with NFL RedZone on Fubo.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mayfield Passing Insights<\/p>\n<p>Mayfield has bettered his passing yards prop total in six games this year, or 37.5%.<br \/>\nThe Buccaneers pass on 55.5% of their plays and run on 44.5%. They are 18th in NFL play in points scored.<br \/>\nWith 521 attempts for 3,490 passing yards, Mayfield is 24th in league play with 6.7 yards per attempt.<br \/>\nMayfield has completed at least one touchdown pass in 15 of 16 games, including multiple TDs eight times.<br \/>\nHe has 26 total touchdowns this season (68.4% of his team&#8217;s 38 offensive TDs).<br \/>\nMayfield has attempted 53 passes in the red zone (44.5% of his team&#8217;s red zone plays).<\/p>\n<p>Get in the game and sign up for FanDuel Fantasy today. <a href=\"https:\/\/affiliates.routy.app\/route\/70562?affId=3147&amp;ts=5002712&amp;pa=4416&amp;cid=71wCHxoaCE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Use our link<\/a> to start playing daily fantasy.<\/p>\n<p>Mayfield&#8217;s Recent Performance<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Baker Mayfield will face a middle-of-the-pack pass defense in Week 18 (Saturday at 4:30&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":647250,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2075],"tags":[1842,235,260,2567,61566,7,6,236,250],"class_list":{"0":"post-647249","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-carolina-panthers","8":"tag-baker-mayfield","9":"tag-carolina","10":"tag-carolina-panthers","11":"tag-carolinapanthers","12":"tag-ds-sports","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-panthers","16":"tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115823681430574192","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647249","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=647249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/647250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}