MOBILE, Ala. -- It’s not often that one of the quarterbacks at the Senior Bowl not only brings his hopes and dreams with him to the all-star game, but a Heisman Trophy on his résumé, as well.

Oklahoma quarterback Baker Mayfield is the first Heisman winner to play behind center at the Senior Bowl since Tim Tebow in 2010.

And Mayfield is front and center this week for the Denver Broncos, who are on the hunt for a quarterback. The Broncos' coaching staff is directing the North team at the Senior Bowl, and Mayfield, one of the top quarterback prospects on the draft board, is one of four QBs on the North roster.

“[They want] to see what I’m all about, see how I react to certain things,’’ Mayfield said after Tuesday’s practice at Ladd-Peebles Stadium. “Maybe see if I can handle the pressure, stuff like that. But it’s an honor. If John Elway asks you to be on your team, you don’t say no.’’

In his time as the Broncos’ chief decision-maker, Elway has often shown an affinity for players he has seen work at the Senior Bowl, including Von Miller, who was Elway’s first draft pick on the job in 2011.

That’s all at work this week for the Broncos, as Mayfield, Wyoming’s Josh Allen, Washington State’s Luke Falk and Nebraska’s Tanner Lee are all on the North roster. The game will be played Saturday (2:30 p.m. ET, NFL Network).

“Like most positions, you want to see guys operate in the meeting room, how they engage with their teammates and, obviously, the football part -- the arm talent, how they move in the pocket and those things,’’ Broncos coach Vance Joseph said. “To have a chance to coach the Senior Bowl allows you to have an intimate setting to evaluate all of the players here. To me, it’s a clear advantage to be here coaching this game.’’

For Mayfield, it’s a chance to show he’s more than the emotional, fiery guy who played in a pass-friendly offense in a conference that lacks stout defenses, the Big 12.

“Everybody wants to portray the bad boy, the Johnny Manziel stuff, but I love the game of football,’’ Mayfield said. “There’s no doubt about that. Emotional player -- I’ll do what it takes to win. Love being around my teammates, love leading and having responsibility.’’

Mayfield did plenty of work on the field for the Sooners, recording three seasons with at least 3,700 yards passing and back-to-back seasons with at least 40 touchdown passes. But he had an arrest for public intoxication last February to go with a sideline incident at Kansas this past season when Mayfield was caught on camera grabbing his crotch and yelling obscenities toward the Jayhawks’ sideline.

Oklahoma coach Lincoln Riley did not let Mayfield start the following week’s game -- on senior day -- and the quarterback was stripped of his captaincy for the game.

As a result, Mayfield came to the Senior Bowl looking to show the NFL's talent evaluators, who may have concerns about everything from those incidents to his size -- he measured 6-foot-3/8 inches and weighed 216 pounds on Tuesday -- to the offense he played in, that he believes he can be a no-nonsense grinder and capable leader.

“Football is everything,’’ Mayfield said. “... It’s challenged me, it’s made me face adversity, it’s brought me some of my best friends ... realizing you have to keep your inner circle tight.’’

Asked what he could gain from working with the Broncos’ staff this week, Mayfield added that he wanted to show the “mental knowledge you can’t test until you’re out there in the system ... just being coachable.’’

Elway has said the Broncos, who have the No. 5 pick, are aiming to draft a player with the mental makeup and physical skills that would allow him to start immediately. That’s where an up-close week at the Senior Bowl could give the Broncos a little more information about Mayfield or any other quarterback they see work this week.

“I think it’s a clear advantage to have a chance to coach this game, to watch those kids in meetings, to watch them in practice and to watch them in install meetings to see how they react to information,’’ Joseph said. “Can they retain information? That’s the game we’re playing. More games are lost than won. The player that can retain information, the player that can sit through meetings, really get it and leave the meetings knowing what to do, that’s important. If you don’t have this access, how do you know with a 15-minute combine meeting, a fly-by combine interview in the train station? You don’t know.’’

Or as Mayfield put it: “[I] came down here to play the game and show them that I love playing.’’