Shannon Sharpe · Oct 10, 2025
Sharpe argued that through five weeks of the 2025 season Baker Mayfield has been the best-playing quarterback in the league, insisting no six quarterbacks are playing the position better than he is and that he belongs in the top five if not first.
“There are not seven six quarterbacks playing the quarterback position better than Baker Mayfield.”
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2 checkable claims from this
Each one is scored on its own against the published methodology. A pundit naming several outcomes is graded on each, not on all-or-nothing.
- Game Outcome PicksOct 10, 2025
“have fun While you're over there Washington, Broncos beat up on them Jets.”
Scored 100a naive guess scored 0+172 skillHow this was scored
- won:
- DEN
- score:
- 13-11
- skill:
- 172
- they picked:
- DEN
- season:
- 2025
- accuracy:
- 100
- baseline:
- 0
- naive pick:
- NYJ
- difficulty:
- 1.72
- weeks in the season:
- 18
- weeks left when called:
- 13
- Positional FinishesOct 10, 2025
“I'm not so sure that Baker Mayfield shouldn't be one... There are not six quarterbacks playing better than Baker Mayfield... they said, the first five weeks of this season, Baker Mayfield played better. Than everybody, and he has.”
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