Bucs QB Leans on Foundation of Faith as Team Starts Strong

Published: October 8, 2025

By Mallory Mattingly

Baker Mayfield is off to one of the best seasons he’s ever had in the NFL.

He’s led the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to a 4-1 start on the season, and in his last game, Mayfield racked up an impressive stat list.

Sports Spectrum reported that he “completed 29 of his 33 passes for 379 yards, two touchdowns and no interceptions. Sunday’s performance marked the second-highest single-game completion percentage (87.9%) and the third-most passing yards of his career. It was also the first time in NFL history that a quarterback compiled 375 or more passing yards and fewer than five incompletions in a regular-season game.”

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After the game, Mayfield told CBS Sports, “We’re built different. It’s the way the locker room is wired, the way they’ve built this roster. And I love it. It’s a group that plays with an edge. I always say, ‘We’re always in the fight.’ But I love this team and I love the way they fight.”

Though Mayfield enjoys great success on the field, it’s nothing compared to his faith in Jesus.

“Jesus is obviously the Son of God, but is grace, is perfection, somebody that sacrificed everything, that gave us this opportunity to live life,” Mayfield said on the “Sports Spectrum” podcast in March. “[Jesus is] the reason we’re here. The story of Jesus walking among the flesh — the only perfect Man — to be sacrificed on the cross and to die for our sins forever. When you accept that grace, that’s an unbelievable feeling.”

Mayfield went on to say that even when his career began to diminish years ago, God was still at work.

“God taught me a lesson. He had to take my career down to the studs and make me realize that I’m more than a football player,” he explained. “There’s much more going on than the game of football. And for me to see that, I had to hit rock bottom… For me to climb back up, I had to dive into the Word and accept that grace. And that was something that was really, really hard for me. When I eventually did, I started to see things from a different viewpoint. That was the biggest change in my life.”

He continued: “It’s been a journey, but it all happened for a reason. God’s timing is perfect, where Tampa feels like home for me now. But that’s only because of what I built the foundation on, what my wife, Emily, and I built our foundation on — that’s our faith. It’s been such a special ride to let God take us through that.”

Mayfield and the Bucs are on a mission to win a Super Bowl this season, and based on how they are playing now, that could very well come to fruition. The Bucs take on the San Francisco 49ers this Sunday at 4:25 p.m. ET.

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