3 reasons the Steelers should acquire Baker Mayfield

Steelers should wait until the Browns cut  Mayfield

If the Steelers traded, we know the cost is exceedingly prohibitive. Mayfield is owed $18.858 million for his fifth-year rookie option. If you have to pay a quarterback that much, you don’t want to pay him to sit on the bench. Then you have the issue of what to give up for Mayfield in a trade.

Considering what the Browns gave up for Watson, any trade for Mayfield would at least need to include a number one draft pick, more than likely two lesser picks as well. In any event, that’s way too much. Here is the problem for Cleveland, though.

If the Browns wanted to get market value for Mayfield, they needed to do it before the trade. Now, everyone knows if the Browns do not trade Mayfield, they will have to cut him. They have no other realistic option. No team in their right mind will give up a number one and pay $18 million if they can sign him at a bargain if he’s cut. If Steelers fans would like nothing else, it’s to see Cleveland put over a barrel. Considering the contract, they gave Watson.

Interestingly enough, Mary Kay Cabot, a long-time Browns reporter, has reported that sources have told her that if the Browns Cut Baker Mayfield, the Steelers are ready to pounce on Mayfield. Now Whether you want to believe that or not is another issue.

There were reports the Steelers had trade compensation lined up for Aaron Rodgers which turned out to be a bogus story. So whether that’s what the Steelers have in mind or not it’s hard to say. Whatever the Browns do, though, Mayfield will never step onto the field for them again.

However, if the Steelers think they can rehabilitate a quarterback who got run out of Chicago and sat behind Josh Allen for a year and the Browns cut Mayfield, then perhaps they could perform the same rehabilitation work on Mayfield as they do on Trubisky. Then it gives time for Mayfield to learn from the Steelers coaches and Trubisky, watch game film, and maybe the Steelers can trade him and get something out of him too or they keep him.

Then at least coming to Pittsburgh, Mayfield won’t be homeless; he can move into Heinz Field for the duration of his new contract.