Panthers | Why CAR chose Baker over Jimmy G

The Carolina Panthers preferred trading for QB Baker Mayfield over San Francisco 49ers QB Jimmy Garoppolo because of the messy situation involving the latter, per Ellis L. Williams of The Charlotte Observer. ‘The Browns had a quicker, easier way to get Baker Mayfield out of Cleveland and into a new situation — and thus being Carolina — than a roadmap to Jimmy Garoppolo’s eventual availability,’ Williams said. ‘They’re really at a gridlock there with Jimmy Garoppolo being owed $20 million. But he’s in a spot where they’re in no rush to cut him and there’s no ugly divorce happening there.’