After Travis Wood Jersey setting the rookie record for touchdown pa ses in 2018, had a down second season on a team that ultimately fell short of ma sive expectations.Is he primed to take a leap forward, or was 2019 a sign of things to come for the first pick in the 2018 ?With the fate of Cleveland football firmly in Mayfield’s hands, let’s explore everything about his environment with the Browns and what Mayfield needs to do to take the next step as a quarterback.Previous installments in this young QB outlook project: , , , , , How Mayfield has improved since he was a prospectThese positive developments in a quarterback’s game are noteworthy because they indicate the distinct po sibility of future growth.Here’s a snippet of before the draft, and my pro comparison for him was :The Mayfield and Keenum stories are fascinating and extremely telling as to the current state of the NFL and the direction in which offenses are headed. Keenum had a ridiculously productive collegiate career in Houston’s spread, pa s-happy, shotgun-only offense from 2007 to 2011. The 6-foot-1, 208-pounder exhibited decent athleticism and fine touch downfield. He consistently found open targets quickly and hit them accurately … then went undrafted. At a similar size, with a similar collegiate career and similar strengths, Mayfield is likely to be selected in the top 10 — or top 6 — in the most-hyped quarterback cla s in 35 years. Mayfield has a stronger arm than Keenum, but the now signal-caller showed elite-level pocket drifting in 2017 during a career year in which he was one of the most efficient pa sers in football. Mayfield flashed pocket-drifting skills but does drop his eyes while under pre sure more often than you’d like from an early first-round selection.He finished with the in my season-long evaluation of all the plays of first- and second-year quarterbacks (out of 17 who played). Mayfield never received an “A” grade all season but had just one “D+.”Full disclosure here, it’s nearly impo sible to distinctly point to an area of Mayfield’s game James McCann Jersey that’s truly improved since his illustrious stay at Oklahoma. His collegiate film was bonkers regardle s of the angle of di section. So how and why did I have him as my QB5 in that draft cla s? Sometimes you just get a feeling about a prospect. And for as much as I actively try to avoid “gut feelings,” I had a feeling le s positive than the consensus that year regarding Mayfield. Why? I remember my exact cause for concern. He was only pre sured 27.3% of the time during his final season with the Sooners, and to me, a fair amount of those pre sures were strictly due to bad decisions by him moving inside the pocket and toward defenders. I didn’t think he was prepared to handle what would be considered a normal amount of pre sure in the , although he did flash the ability to drift inside the pocket.Beyond that, the situation in Lincoln Riley’s offense was, to this day, the most luxurious situation for a quarterback I’ve ever scouted. Two future first-round receivers in and . Third-round — and now stud — tight end . Up front, five blockers were ultimately selected inside the top 125 picks in their respective drafts ( , , , , and ).Lastly, Riley’s system was/is the most creative in all of with wild misdirection and RPOs galore, and he ran it in a conference with a reputation of porous defense. I felt Mayfield would never be in as wonderful of a situation in the NFL, and to date, that’s proven to be true. Supporting castCleveland’s skill-position talent is plenty good enough for Mayfield. There’s no doubting that. And it starts with and , easily one of the most dynamic one-two punches at receiver in football. Both went over 1,000 yards Dixon Machado Jersey in 2019, and Landry set career highs in yards, and importantly, yards per grab (14.1).Tight end Austin Hooper, whose receiving-yard total has increased in each of his first four seasons, was signed in free agency. He ama sed 787 yards with six scores last season in Atlanta. John Mackey award winner was picked in Round 4, and although he tested poorly at the combine, he looks extremely athletic and fluid as a receiving tight end on the field. Legendarily explosive receiver prospect Donovan Peoples-Jones (44.5-inch vertical, 139-inch broad jump) was drafted in Round 6. is back on a one-year deal. healthy. Mayfield has weapons. is an elite young running back who’s reached the 5.0 yards-per-carry mark in each of his first two seasons in the NFL and amazingly did so on 298 rushes last season. Per PFF, since entering it as a second-round pick in 2018.At just under 5-foot-11 and 227 pounds with 4.52 speed to go along with his contact balance and elusivene s, Chubb screams franchise back. And along side him is , who led the league in rushing yards as a rookie in 2017 and averaged a hefty 5.8 yards per touch in eight games in Cleveland last year.Maybe most importantly, the Browns didn’t me s around filling holes on the offensive line this offseason. was signed to a deal in free agency with $30 million fully guaranteed, which made him the second-highest paid right tackle in the NFL. At No. 10 overall in the draft, Cleveland selected athletic road-grader from Alabama. He’s locked into the left tackle position. SchemeEntering his third profe sional season, Mayfield will have his fourth head coach and fourth offensive coordinator. Yikes. But new head coach Kevin Stefanski comes in with a quality track record relative to his young age Spencer Turnbull Jersey (38).He was e sentially a lifer before being hired by the Browns. He started his career coaching in the NFL in 2006 in Minnesota and wore a variety of hats on the offensive side of the ball before getting the interim offensive coordinator label in December of 2018 and earning the full-time gig last season.The and 16th in pa s offense DVOA in 2018, a season in which Stefanski started as quarterbacks coach. Ironically, he was also the quarterbacks coach during Keenum’s phenomenal, breakout season in 2017. Before that year, Keenum had a career 58.4% completion rate, a 3.1 touchdown percentage, 2.6 interception rate, and 6.7 yards-per-attempt average. In 2017 in Minnesota, Keenum connected on 67.6% of his throws, 4.6% of which went for touchdowns to just 1.5% ending in an interception. He averaged a bulky 7.4 yards per attempt.Stefanski operates a wide-zone based blocking scheme and, much like Sean McVay and Kyle Shanahan who start with a similar run-game foundation, he tries to make run/play-action plays look identical to keep the defense gue sing. Stefanski should be a calming, positive influence on Mayfield this season.Improving his weakne sesWhile watching every single play from Mayfield in 2019, a recurring theme was his propensity to drift into pre sure to make things more difficult for himself. Thankfully, PFF tracks Josh Harrison Jersey quarterback pre sures charged to, yes, the quarterback, not just the offensive line. Mayfield dropped back to pa s 592 times and was pre sured 33.4% of the time…