Is the Baker Mayfield trade good for the Carolina Panthers? Tell us what you think

For a third straight offseason, the Carolina Panthers have acquired a new (potential) starting quarterback.

The Cleveland Browns agreed to trade Baker Mayfield to the Panthers in exchange for a conditional draft pick. The Panthers will pay $4.85 million of Mayfield’s salary — he was originally owed $18.8 million this year.

Mayfield, 27, was the No. 1 overall pick in the 2018 draft. He is 29-30 all-time as an NFL starter but had a few impressive seasons — including one that saw a Browns’ playoff win in 2020 — before having a 2021 year riddled with injuries and turnovers.

He joins a now-crowded quarterback room in Carolina with Sam Darnold (2018’s third overall pick) and Matt Corral (a third-round pick in 2022).

How do Panthers fans feel about all this?

Take our poll below to let us know.

Alex Zietlow

The Herald

Alex Zietlow writes about sports and the ways in which they intersect with life in York, Chester and Lancaster counties for The Herald, where he has been an editor and reporter since August 2019. Zietlow has won nine S.C. Press Association awards in his career, including First Place finishes in Feature Writing, Sports Enterprise Writing and Education Beat Reporting. He also received two Top-10 awards in the 2021 APSE writing contest and was nominated for the 2022 U.S. Basketball Writers Association’s Rising Star award for his coverage of the Winthrop men’s basketball team.