BEREA, Ohio — We just got a little bit better.
The text hit Baker Mayfield’s phone late in the afternoon on March 12, and the then-23-year-old face of the Browns franchise didn’t need any further explanation from the sender—his coach, Freddie Kitchens—for what that meant. Everything was about to change.
After a couple weeks of the quarterback hearing that it was going to happen, then that it wasn’t, then that it was again, Odell Beckham was Cleveland-bound.
“Just pure excitement, knowing what kind of guy he was, because I knew him personally before that,” Mayfield said, in a quiet moment after the Browns’ first training camp practice.