Baker Mayfield Reportedly Expected to 'Be In Line for Another Major' Bucs Contract

Baker Mayfield agreed to a three-year, $100 million deal with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers ahead of the 2024 season and is reportedly playing his way toward another significant contract from the NFC South leaders.

CBS Sports' Jonathan Jones reported Wednesday that Mayfield "will be in line for another major payday" if he "remains on this trajectory" since "the Buccaneers wouldn't want to go into the 2026 season with Mayfield in the final year of his deal that currently has a $51.9 million cap hit."

This is Mayfield's third season with the Buccaneers, and he already led them to back-to-back NFC South titles as a Pro Bowler in 2023 and 2024. He kept the team among the best in the NFC even after Tom Brady retired and threw for 4,500 yards and 41 touchdowns in 2024, which were both career-high marks.

He's been even better to start the 2025 campaign.

Tampa Bay is 5-1 through six games in large part because of Mayfield's individual brilliance. He has completed 66.2 percent of his passes for 1,539 yards, 12 touchdowns and one interception and already has four fourth-quarter game-winning comebacks and drives on the year.

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Seemingly every game he ducks out of surefire sacks, sheds defenders and makes plays downfield to keep the offense alive. And he has done so while receivers Mike Evans, Chris Godwin and Emeka Egbuka have all missed various amounts of time with injuries.

The one interception is particularly notable because Mayfield led the league with 16 picks last year. It was the one concern about the start of his Buccaneers' tenure, but he has addressed that as well this season.

Mayfield is just 30 years old, has clear chemistry with Egbuka that only figures to grow as they get more playing time together and has the Buccaneers on the short list of realistic Super Bowl contenders.

Anything but a new contract from Tampa Bay would be shocking at this point, even if it ends up being bigger than the last one he signed.

The Buccaneers have their franchise quarterback and will surely look to pay him accordingly again in the near future.