Baker Mayfield‘s tenure in Cleveland did not end well, but one of his former teammates is rooting for him after his spectacular comeback on Thursday night.
Browns defensive end Myles Garrett, who played with Mayfield for four years in Cleveland, said he went to bed on Thursday night with Mayfield’s Rams trailing 16-3 but didn’t doubt Mayfield was capable of bringing the Rams back, which he did in a 17-16 win over the Raiders.
“I’m not going to lie, I didn’t see half of it,” Garrett said, via the Akron Beacon Journal. “I went to sleep at the end of the third. I was like, [16-3], new team, maybe he’ll get them next week. I went to sleep, I woke up. Right before I went to sleep, I was with my [physical therapist] John, I said, ‘Maybe you should stay up.