NORMAN — Baker Mayfield admitted he wasn’t happy about being forced out of last weekend’s game against TCU.
“I’d run through a brick wall for my team,” Mayfield said during a Monday news conference, and you got the sense he might not have actually meant that in a metaphoric, hyperbolic sense.
After all, Mayfield was perfectly ready to run back onto the field and play more football with a headache a little more than an hour removed from sustaining a concussion after a helmet-to-helmet hit from TCU linebacker Ty Summers.
OU coach Bob Stoops and head athletic trainer Scott Anderson told reporters Monday that everything was on track for Mayfield to play Saturday, when Oklahoma meets rival Oklahoma State in primetime with a Big 12 championship, a potential College Football Playoff berth and maybe even the Heisman Trophy on the line.