One NFL team reportedly hired a private

Quarterbacks are a very valuable commodity in the NFL and, as such, teams are extremely aggre sive in their research of said quarterbacks. This applies to all draft picks, but the stuff you see surrounding signal callers Edgar Martinez Jersey before the draft is pretty nuts. Like, for instance, a team hiring a private investigator to trail quarterback . , whose done an excellent eight-part series on Mayfield thus far and reports that recently, while driving around Norman, Ok., Mayfield found out he had a .From Klemko's article:Later on Tuesday, Mayfield received an alert from a trusted source that he had a tail in Norman. A private investigator, he was told, was tracking his movements on behalf of a team. The MMQB was unable to verify the identity of that team, but it should come as no surprise that any Dee Gordon Jersey NFL franchise considering a (minimum) four-year commitment and tens of millions of dollars to a 22-year-old might like to know how he spends nights near his old stomping grounds.Mayfield has some off-field i sues in terms of his behavior for NFL teams, back in February of 2017. . (If we're being honest, a college student getting drunk in public is not breaking news nor unusual, but Mayfield's too high profile for it not to be a problem at the draft/NFL level.) Austin Adams Jersey An NFL team contemplating whether to invest millions and millions in Mayfield is going to want to find out what he's doing in his free time, especially with all the comparisons floating around out there, and with Manziel's struggles off the field contributing to him washing out of the NFL before his rookie contract ended.To be clear: Mayfield is Manziel Dylan Moore Jersey . But it's a lazy draft time comparison that gets bandied about because of the bravado both played with while leading a Big 12 school to a high level of succe s. So what team was tailing him?It has to be a team at the top interested in drafting a quarterback. The , , , and all have visits scheduled with the quarterback. The reportedly have a lot of interest in Mayfield too.Notably, per Klemko, he met privately with the . It would be something if Mayfield, who has drawn comparisons because of his size ( might be more Omar Narvaez Jersey accurate), was drafted by the Bolts to replace , the guy who was drafted to replace Brees many years ago.Mayfield also met privately with quarterbacks coach Mike Shula, per Klemko. No one knows exactly when Mayfield is going to go in the draft. He could go first overall or he could fall to the teens. But someone is going to invest highly in him, enough so that they're tailing him around campus to see what he does in his spare time.