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Monday, May 13, 2019

Mayfield rips school for trying to 'remove competitive culture'

Baker Mayfield is one of the most competitive young players to enter the NFL in a long time, and he’s had to work his tail off to achieve everything he’s accomplished so far in his young life. So it’s not really all that surprising he had a negative reaction to news that a high school is working overtime to “remove competitive culture.” Responding to a tweet on a WLWT5 news story about the school’s decision to remove valedictorian and salutatorian distinctions, Mayfield had a pointed retort. Mayfield ended up being the No. 1 overall pick of the 2018 NFL Draft and succeeded in a big way during his rookie campaign. Before all that, however, he was a former walk-on at Texas Tech. Incredibly, Mayfield won Big 12 Freshman Offensive Player of the Year at Texas Tech, then left the program because he lost his starting job due to injury amid accusations his coach at the time, Kliff Kingsbury, wasn’t communicating with him about it. Mayfield then went on to walk on at Oklahoma. All he did there was win the Heisman Tro

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