Baker Mayfield Helped Motivate Lavonte David To Return For 2025
August 7th, 2025
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Bucs icon linebacker Lavonte David will fully admit he was learning toward calling it a career at point in teh offseson.
Several factors swayed him to return 2025. One was the makeup of the club. David has stated that if the Bucs were a rebuilding team or a loser team like the Lost Decade clubs, he would be at his home in Miami right now.
David is a big fan of Baker Mayfield. David loves his style, his grit, his heart and his aggressive ways on the field. David says Mayfield is a linebacker at quarterback and, well, Joe guesses David bonds with his fellow linebackers and guys with linebacker mentalities.
Speaking with Kay Adams of FanDuel TV yesterday at One Buc Palace, David told Adams it was a motivational phone call from Mayfield that helped David make his decision to return to the Bucs.
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Joe knows a little over a year ago, Mike Evans decided to return to the Bucs, in part, because of Mayfield. This spring Mayfield worked his magic on David.
Say what you want about Todd Bowles, but it was Bowles who used a hard sell on Bucs AC/DC-loving general manager Jason Licht to sign Mayfield when most of the league thought he was washed.
Signing Mayfield and allowing him to blossom on his terms may be one of the smartest moves any team has made this decade.
"With Baker leading us, I got all the faith in the world"
Lavonte David says a motivational call from Baker Mayfield helped solidify his return
After his decision, Lavonte says Baker was one of the first people to find out 🤝@heykayadams | @LavonteDavid54 | @Buccaneers pic.twitter.com/YsEyBWitR9
— Up & Adams (@UpAndAdamsShow) August 6, 2025