Lavonte David: Baker Mayfield "was going through a lot" physically in 2025
Buccaneers quarterback Baker Mayfield has a reputation for playing through anything. In 2025, he may have been playing through everything. Retired Tampa Bay linebacker Lavonte David recently opened up about Baker's many bumps and bruises during an appearance on The Arena .
"The season’s over now, I can talk about it ,” David said, via JoeBucsFan. com. “Man, Baker was going through a lot, bro.
Baker had a lot of injuries that you didn’t expect a quarterback to play through. You know what I’m saying? He had the oblique injury, he had the shoulder injury, he had a lot of things.
You know, ankle injury, knee injury. . .
. He was really trying to push through and really trying to be the player that we needed him to be. " Mayfield started all 17 games.