Mayfield recreated Favre’s epic jorts draft photo and it’s everything
#MAYFIELDSZN Y’ALL.
Day one of the NFL draft begins Thursday night from AT&T Stadium in Dallas. A full 24 hours before things even got started though, former Oklahoma quarterback Baker Mayfield single handedly won the draft with this epic photo he posted on Twitter the eve before his NFL career begins:
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In case you aren’t aware, or are living under a rock, this is a recreation of the same exact epic photo of NFL Hall of Fame QB Brett Favre getting his NFL draft call back in 1991:
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“I didn’t ask for a big party, my family set it all up,” Favre said of his draft experience in 2016 via the Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel. “I was not invited to New York or anything.”
Mayfield has said in the past that Favre was one of the NFL quarterbacks he looked up to when he was growing up, and this sounds about right. Mayfield’s style of play, characterized by some as inventive and aggressive, whereas risky and out-of-control by others, has a lot of similarities to Favre’s.
Mayfield’s latest projection from Mocking The Draft’s Dan Kadar is at No. 3 overall to the New York Jets. Wherever Mayfield lands on Thursday night, this picture certainly will be a popular topic of conversation between now and then.