Nick Chubb calls Baker Mayfield his best friend, thinks highly of the former QB

The Cleveland Browns running back Nick Chubb believes in his best friend Baker Mayfield.

Many Cleveland Browns fans who are happy that Baker Mayfield won’t be the team’s starting quarterback anymore like to point out how his teammates had issues with him as a reason for why it’s best to move on. Yet, the only player who really had issues with him was Odell Beckham and Beckham has a history of being a prima donna in his own right. So at that point you’re just picking the guy you prefer, and really anything based on behavior.

Yet, the Browns aren’t all going to be happy moving on from Mayfield, enter Nick Chubb, Mayfield’s best friend.

In an interview recently, Chubb was asked about Mayfield, and Chubb revealed that he and his former quarterback are incredibly close friends, saying;

“He’ll still always be one of my best friends. He’s a great guy. I know with his intensity and his attitude, wherever he lands, he’ll be ready.”

Nick Chubb’s endorsement of Baker Mayfield should matter to Cleveland Browns fans

Mayfield is gone, suspension or not of Deshaun “I make women cry” Watson. There’s no unringing that bell. Yet, considering so many people like to believe unnamed reports of people in the Browns organization that thinks Mayfield didn’t get along with people, they should put as much if not more emphasis on a guy like Chubb who’s telling everyone how close he was with Mayfield.

Especially because it’s Chubb. Chubb is one of the few guys in the NFL who is both team-first and comes with no real off-field issues. He runs camps for kids and donates money to charity. He’s a great football player and an even better man. And that should say something, as he’s running his way to the Hall of Fame.

So if Chubb, one of the most respected dudes in all of the game is speaking this highly of Mayfield, then that should matter to Browns fans who cite anonymous sources about how happy they are that Mayfield is on the way out.

Chubb in a lot of ways reminds me of Corey Kluber, a diplomatic person who gives very stock answers to avoid ruffling feathers. If Chubb is putting support behind Mayfield, there’s a reason for that.

This isn’t to change anyone’s opinion that Mayfield is the answer at quarterback. You can believe he is or isn’t because, at the end of the day, the Browns have decided he isn’t. It’s simply to try and contextualize who he is on the way out.

Plenty of people loved playing with him and if Chubb is willing to lead the charge of soon-to-be-former teammates who speak highly of Mayfield, then we as fans should be willing to listen to him.