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Oklahoma Heisman Trophy QB candidate Baker Mayfield arrested in Arkansas
Oklahoma QB Baker Mayfield was in Fayetteville, Arkansas on Friday night, and it appears he may have had a little bit too good of a time.
RELATED: Initial police report for Mayfield’s arrest
The Sooners quarterback and Heisman Trophy candidate was arrested by the Fayetteville Police Department for public intoxication, disorderly conduct, fleeing and resisting arrest.
Mayfield threw for 3,965 yards and 40 touchdowns last year as Oklahoma’s starting quarterback.
The Sooners open the 2017 season against UTEP. In Week 2, Oklahoma travels to Ohio State in a marquee matchup.
Update: OU has released a statement on the matter.
“We are aware of the matter and are learning the details. We don’t have any other information at this time.”
Not so Fayettechill.
The issue is the employers being ok with domestic and child abuse, but air pressure and college kids acting like college kids is an unforgivable sin.
He got carried away on his 21st birthday. Does he have a history of alcohol related problems or problems in general?
This “mistake” might also benefit him and his future team in the long run.
You are seriously reaching here. Deflection is not a defense. He screwed up. Defending that just makes it worse.
Really? He acted like plenty of college kids. He’s semi famous all it made news. Idiotic militant clowns. Send him home in a squad car .
What exactly was the reach?
Bringing up domestic abuse is an obvious reach. No reason to bring that into this conversation. The kid was drunk and didn’t do what he was told by the police. That deserves an arrest. Not sure why you would try to defend this behavior. There are obviously worse things a person can do, but this wasn’t good or acceptable by any means.
No, it really isn’t a reach. Suggesting his stock will suffer is a reach and only those who turn a blind eye to domestic abuse will use this as a means to bypass him.
If he gets in further trouble, fine. If things get unearthed during the pre draft vetting process that show he has a history of alcohol issues but were not in public and contained to house parties and dorms, fine, run up the red Manziell flags.
However if this remains his only issue and he has the goods, most GMs will look at it like it is – he didn’t get busted with drugs or guns. He was out on his birthday, went too far with the shots, as many people do who turn legal age, and he panicked because he thought he was going to get an assault beef when he was trying to break it up.
This is just militant nonsense.
Who suggested his stock would suffer? It’s not written here anywhere? Were you out drinking with the QB? You are making no sense.
Read below. See comment re: losing money
So he was out celebrating his 21st birthday and got a little carried away. What’s the issue
The issue is he got arrested. 21st birthday is a big deal for everyone but I doesn’t mean you have to act like an idiot.
No I think the issue is the hybrid Quaker/ cowboy mentality.
21 years of age to buy liquor. Ridiculous.
Decent, civilized cultures pass it off as a college dude being drunk.
There is nothing decent or civilized about this drunk’s behavior. There never is.
Settle down, Amos.
College kids party. Sometimes they get carried away. It was his birthday; his buddies likely put a tray of shots in front of him. It doesn’t make him indecent or uncivilized; it makes him a college kid who got carried away.
Enough of the moralistic stuff. Your goofball leaders send kids his age (and younger because, you can go kill and die when you’re 18 but you can’t buy liquor) to invade and occupy to establish control over fossil fuels resulting in the slaughter of hundreds of thousands, and you’re playing high ground on a kid who got drunk on his 21st birthday
He can’t handle his alcohol at 21 and you think he should be drinking earlier? Ok then.
Yes, it’s an idiotic law. You can vote. You can get married. You can buy a gun. You can go kill people in the name of “freedom for Murca”
But your can’t have a beer. And yes, there’s never been anyone older than 21 who got plastered on their birthday.
It’s ok Amos, I’m sure he’ll have a glass of milk tonight
I don’t know who Amos is but I know your comments are ridiculous. He is either your hero or a kindred spirit. Neither is good.
He’s neither. He’s a kid who had a MINOR screw up. Yet good old Amos thinks it’s a terrible offense. With the arch criminal types littering the SEC, it’s shocking this kid is getting roasted so bad.
Never mind the whole SEC. Let’s stick to LSU.
If Mayfield is so bad, please share your thoughts on:
Ryan Perrilloux
Anthony Jennings
Maquedius Bain
Dwayne Thomas
Trey Lealaimatafao
Jevonte Domond
Quinn Johnson
Jalen Mills
Jeryl Brazil
Tharold Sims
Jeremy Hill
Jordan Jefferson
Josh Johns
Brad Wing
T-Bob Hebert
Terrence Toliver
Derrick Odom III
Troy Giddens
Kyle Anderson
Zhamal Thomas
Troy Giddens
You can’t read. Sleep off your hangover and come back and read my comments when you are sober. I have said nothing about this being a big deal. Nothing. You are still ridiculous.
I don’t drink but thanks for the concern, Amos.
“There is nothing decent or civilized about this drunk’s behavior. There never is.”
This is the first drinking I’ve heard tell of with this guy. Doesn’t really qualify him as a drunk. Yet you seem to be condemning him. Subsequent posts had you implying he’s some sort of misfit based on one incident.
You’re making a fairly big deal about an guy getting plastered on his birthday and having ONE screw up on his resume
You are the one making a big deal about this, and you still sound ridiculous doing it.
No, the puritan calling someone a drunk on their first known consumption is the one who sounds ridiculous
You sounded ridiculous long before I commented with your domestic violence defense. I even commented on another article that it wasn’t a big deal. You are just making it out to be no deal and comparing it to attitudes toward domestic violence, which is again, ridiculous. I’m done with this article. Feel free to have the last word.
I “sounded” ridiculous to you because you have issues understanding things.
I did not compare this with domestic abuse.
You see, people think this will affect his draft status.
I was commenting on the fact that the NFL is a league run by a clown. A guy who suspends a QB for 1/4 of the season because the ball boy may have let a little air out. The same clown who suspends people who smoke pot for 1/4 of the season.
Meanwhile, Ray Rice punched out his girlfriend and gets 2 games.
You see, I wasn’t comparing the acts. I was criticizing the NFL’s twisted priorities.
Understand now, Amos?
The issue is he has a potential NFL career and the NFL has shown it is taking off field issues more seriously. This mistake can cost him a lot more money than the face value of whatever fine he winds up with. Some lines of work, this doesn’t matter. His, it does. A few, you just lose your job.
The issue is the employers being ok with domestic and child abuse, but air pressure and college kids acting like college kids is an unforgivable sin.
He got carried away on his 21st birthday. Does he have a history of alcohol related problems or problems in general?
This “mistake” might also benefit him and his future team in the long run.
What employer is ok with domestic violence? Your strawman argument is ridiculous. Sleep it off.
NFL. Ray Rice. Ring a bell, Amos?
I’m not Amos, and Rice never played again after his issue. That doesn’t do much for your argument. They have also strengthened the penalites since then. You might want to try and keep up so you won’t continue to look so ridiculous.
Ray Rice never played again because he was a running back already in a steep decline when it happened. He ran did just over 600 yards at 3.1 ypc and his receptions were down.
By the time his revised suspension rescindment happened he was a 28 year old multi purpose running back with a LOT of mileage. He was already on the decline and was now at the age where those kinds of RBs fall off a cliff. You don’t hire that because the production is NOT going to outweigh the sideshow.
But that doesn’t matter what happened in the aftermath. What matters is Ray Rice came clean to Goodell, admitted punching her, and because he was forthcoming, Goodell only thought it warranted 2 games. It was only after the Video leaked (which he denied seeing) and the public went nuts that he increased it. But potheads get 4 to start. It’s not like it was a long time ago with different attitudes toward it. And it’s not like it was a different commissioner. It was 3 years ago.
Perhaps you recall the constant outcry that pot is treated more severely than assault by Mr. Integrity of the shield?
UPDATE: Stoops has released a statement with a punishment. Mayfeild will be forced to sit out the bye week as a result of his misdemeanor.
The open week? LOL
Lol.
The D&D was a typical dumb college mistake (although a somewhat unforgivable decision for a high-profile player, as I’m sure Stoops is letting him have in both ears). That can always be pleaded out or dismissed. Where things went south was the failure to obey an officer’s commands, fleeing, and then resisting arrest. That will not be thrown out and will carry a much heavier penalty. This is what makes it not just “a college kid having too much on his 21st birthday.”
Finally… Someone using common sense. All of these “just a college kid being a college kid” replies are ridiculous. Drunk & Disorderly, sure. I’ll buy that. But fleeing and resisting arrest? Nah, that’s not minor. This kid needs to sit several games and complete some serious community service.
It’s minor in the context of what happened. If there was a shooting and murder and he fled and resisted that’s huge. Drunk guys arguing… Pretty minor.
Perhaps it’s a result of more militant policing. I don’t know. In more laid back places cops send people on their way. If they don’t comply they get a warning of a fine and a night in the drunk tank. If they still don’t comply…Off to the tank.
Fleeing and resisting. LMFAO. Only in such a militaristic country would THIS be categorized as that.
Everywhere else that isn’t a military state this is nothing. Kids bumper hitch in the winter, the cops arrive, they run. Sometimes the cops catch them. When they do it’s a ride home and a “if I ever catch you doing this again you’re getting fined”
An argument and possible fight outside a bar ? You’re told to go home and if they see you again, it’s off to the drunk tank. If you “resist” ie straighten your arms but don’t actually physically strike to cop, it’s not a charge – you’re cuffed hands behind your back and it’s the long scenic route to the drunk tank and they take really sharp turns so the arrested guy is flying around the back seat of the car and cracks his head off the car door a few times.
When I was younger and guys were drunk wanting to fight the cops would separate them, and take each one away. Then they would take them to an open place with no crowd. They’d taken them out of the car and ask them straight up “do you two really want to fight?” Just to make sure it wasn’t posturing that could escalate into a street brawl. if both guys said yes, the cops let them go at it. It ensures no weapons would be used, no cheap shots. No groups ganging up on one of them. It was a regulated 1 on 1. And after it was over that was the end of it because they’d give a stern “if we catch you trying to start sh!t downtown again you’re getting charged. I don’t feel like going to my son’s hockey game with a black eye because I had to jump into a street brawl because you idiots didn’t hehe the brains to take it down a back alley away from the crowd”
Everything is too extreme and militant now, from law enforcement AND the public and their backlash
Sad that he had to travel to an SEC town to party on his 21st! B-day. Hopefully he gets back on the (Sooner) wagon.