Buccaneers rookie had delusional admission about hearing Baker Mayfield’s MVP chants

Johnson capped off his celebration with a full front flip. The electric play also earned Mayfield some “MVP” chants. After the game, Johnson hilariously admitted that he initially thought the chants were for him.

“Let me tell y’all a funny story. This is crazy. When I scored and I hear MVP chants, I’m thinking they’re talking about me,” admitted Johnson.

“And so I asked [Sterling Shepard], I’m like, ‘Shep, they was chanting MVP?’ And he was like, ‘Yeah.’ I was like, ‘I ain’t do nothing this year.’ And then he was like, ‘They’re talking about Baker, Tez.’ And I was like, ‘Well, that explains it.'”

Johnson finished the story off by stating that Mayfield has been the MVP so far this season. The fans watching Sunday’s Buccaneers-49ers game seemed to agree as well.

Any MVP chants for Johnson would have been premature, to say the least. The Oregon product entered the game with just five receptions for 67 yards across four career NFL games. The rookie’s touchdown on Sunday was the first of his career and also his only catch of the game.

It was quite an eventful day for Johnson. Apart from making the game’s biggest play, he also went viral for his crazy reaction to seeing 49ers linebacker Fred Warner’s gruesome injury up close.