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In between his freshman and sophomore years Mayfield nearly made the decision to give up football all together and pursue a professional career in competitive video games. While his decision ultimately was to stay with football, Mayfield still to this day plays Halo at a very high competitive level. Mayfield has brought many other members of the University of Oklahoma football team into the 26th century world of Halo. This includes football teammates Grant Bothun, Ty Darlington, Matt Dimon, Connor Knight, and former OU starting quarterback Trevor Knight. Mayfield has expressed high level of competition for the game by claiming that he could beat any student on The University of Oklahoma campus in a one-versus-one game of Halo 3. With there being over 25,000 students on the OU campus, this is an ambitious claim that many of his teammates believe he would be able to uphold.

Mayfield has claimed that Halo has had a positive effect on his on field performance for football. One of the main factors is that both football and halo require multitasking and quick thinking. Both positions require that the player be able to react quickly to their environment and what is going on around him. Another aspect that has benefited him is the use of the radar that is found on the lower left corner of the screen in Halo. He states that the radar has allowed for him to better find his receivers on the field. Both Halo and football require that he be able to see things out of the corner of his eye.[17]