Nick Wright: Yes, Baker Mayfield Is A Top-10 Quarterback
July 9th, 2025
Believes in Baker Mayfield.
Baker Mayfield can rest easy after he reads the following. Because now, the Bucs quarterback will know he has made it in his life’s work.
FOX Sports personality Nick Wright has a tradition of picking his quarterback pyramid for the upcoming seasons. This summer is no different.
(Yes, we are in the throes of List Season.)
Wright, a panelist for the “First Things First” hollering show seen weekdays on FS1, published his quarterback pyramid for 2025 this week. And he has Mayfield in the top 10 of the pyramid.
Not surprising, Wright, a diehard Chiefs fan, has Pat Mahomes on Level-1 at the very top of the pyramid. On Level-2 Wright has Josh Allen and Saint Lamar Jackson.
On the third level, Wright lists Joe Burrow, Jalen Hurts and Jayden Daniels.
On Level-4 is where we can find Mayfield. Wright has Mayfield on this level along with Matt Stafford, Jared Goff and C.J. Stroud.
The final two levels are all sorts of controversial. Wright doesn’t even list Anthony Richardson. Of course, there is only room for 28 quarterbacks.
And yes, Joe fully agrees with Wright that Mayfield is better than Jordan Love and Kyler Murray and Trevor Lawrence and Tua Tagovailoa.
July 9th, 2025 at 12:52 am
Generally agree. Baker should be in tier 3 with a swap from Jalen or Jayden. Daniels has only 1 year under his belt. I remember last year when CJ Stroud was the next best thing.
Anthony Richardson needed a break.
July 9th, 2025 at 2:04 am
Mahomes 26 tds 11 pics – 19th in the league. Stopped reading after that.
July 9th, 2025 at 2:06 am
I’ll take Baker all day over pay me more but I’ll never win a SB or be happy because it’s a team sport Lamar. Go Bowles
July 9th, 2025 at 2:53 am
I’m not one of the mentally deranged Baker Boi(s) and even I would easily put Mayfield in the top 10.
Putting Hurts in that third tier is beyond ridiculous – Baker is better than Hurts without a doubt. I’d also put Baker above Stafford at this point of his career, and I’m never thought much of Goff, he’s definitely going down a level on my list. As stated before, I’d put Herbert above Baker, he’s been trapped in an awful system and doesn’t have anywhere near the weapons that Baker does – in this offense, Herbert would have the Bucs being talked about by everyone as a legit SB contender. Also I’d put Stroud above Baker – it’s hard to not look at his production and age and not do so, but can certainly listen to people make an argument about if it’s just a single year having Baker ahead, but it’s more about how highly I think of Stroud than anything else.
July 9th, 2025 at 3:00 am
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July 9th, 2025 at 12:52 am
Generally agree. Baker should be in tier 3 with a swap from Jalen or Jayden. Daniels has only 1 year under his belt. I remember last year when CJ Stroud was the next best thing.
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Stroud lost pretty much all of his weapons last year for large portions of the season, along with some really bad offensive line play and some very questionable play-calling and still won 10 games. He’s still one of the very best young QBs in the game.
As for Daniels, he didn’t choke in the 4th quarter of his playoff game – in fact he won 2 games and as a rookie took what everyone thought was a bad team to the NFC Championship game.
July 9th, 2025 at 4:55 am
Baker is absolutely higher than Stafford. Also, not feeling Burrows and Jackson on the upper tiers. Allen should be highest tier with or without Mahomes.
This is a mishmash tier. Some sports media and others are praising that this will be Penix year. He is on the bottom tier with Rodgers… A long way upward. Bo Nix had a pretty good season. He is 2nd from the bottom.
July 9th, 2025 at 6:03 am
This ranking seems arbitrarily skewed by geometry. Cute idea, but highly debatable execution.