The Bucs have found their leader for the future in Baker Mayfield. From his college days at Texas Tech and Oklahoma, Mayfield has always been a gamer, and that competitive mindset is serving him well in Tampa Bay.

Baker Mayfield wanted more yards on one of his several scrambles so he lowered his head, leaned his shoulder forward and rammed into two linebackers.

Baker Mayfield has always been an escape artist, a guy nimble enough to duck under sacks or shed tacklers to buy time to throw the football down the field. But backed into a corner the way he was in Sunday’s win over the Saints,