The upcoming season of Netflix’s Quarterback show will feature Baker Mayfield, Jayden Daniels, Joe Flacco and Cam Ward. Getting Mayfield on board took some work.
Mayfield said today that he was asked to do it in the first two years that the show aired and turned it down. But Peyton Manning, a producer of the show, convinced him he could do it without it being a distraction.
“Turning it down the first few times, I think for me it was, it seems like it’s a ‘me, me, me’ thing and I wanted to make sure it wasn’t going to be like that,” Mayfield said. “So, talking to guys that have done it in the past, continuous conversations with Peyton Manning, it’s really not that invasive.”
Mayfield said the show, which filmed mostly during the 2025 season, proved to be a welcome opportunity to capture what life is like right now for himself, his wife and their young daughter.
“Just for me a couple of sitdown interviews outside of the building and capturing some family footage,” Mayfield said. “I wanted to get a lot of that stuff captured just as the phase of life that we’re going through right now in the next the next chapter of the journey for us. But also I think, I do it to myself, but people have a persona or an idea about who I am until you really get to know me, which is fine. And so I hope that gives an insight to the fact that uh I truly love this game. I love my teammates, and I I bust my ass.”
Ultimately, he said, everyone on board respected that he wouldn’t do anything that would distract from his primary focus.
“They know that all I want to do is win,” Mayfield said. “So as long as that wasn’t going to be a distraction, as long as it wasn’t going to take away from the real goals at hand, it was going to be OK, and that they made sure of that.”
