On Thursday night, the National Football League will hold its 83rd annual player draft, and the Sooners are all but guaranteed of having one more name added to the list of first-round selections.
Heisman Trophy winning quarterback Baker Mayfield, who walked on at two major college programs, including Oklahoma, appears to be a lock to become the Sooners’ 43rd first-round pick. In fact, the general consensus is that Mayfield will go among the first 10 picks in this year’s NFL Draft.
If you ask Mayfield, though, the competitor and eternal optimist that he is, he won’t hesitate to inform you “he won’t go any later than” the fifth pick (which belongs to John Elway and the Denver Broncos, by the way) in the draft.