Patriots Draft Drake Maye 3rd Overall (4/25/24)

With the third pick in the 2024 NFL Draft the New England Patriots select....Drake Maye, quarterback from North Carolina. After months of speculation, the Patriots ended up with arguably one of the most athletic quarterbacks in the draft.

                                                            Welcome to New England

Maye was ACC player of the year for the 2022 UNC Tar Heels as they made it to the ACC Championship Game. In 2023, two of his top receivers graduated so his numbers went down a little bit. At 6'4 and 230 he's got the size to make it in the league and he's a bit more mobile than Mac Jones.

                                                                Maye at UNC

Now that the Patriots have a quarterback prospect, it's up to Eliot Wolf to surround Maye with talent in this draft. Tomorrow night they need at least one receiver and one offensive lineman to help Maye out. As bad as Mac Jones and Bailey Zappe played last year, they had no receivers to throw to and good lineman to protect them. The rumor is that the Patriots might shop the 34th pick for Brandon Aiyuk in San Francisco. Probably not a good idea but you never know what the Patriots are going to do.

                                                           Aiyuk to the Patriots?

98.5 and their fans are already screaming that Maye has terrible footwork and JJ McCarthy was a better pick. Also some fans want Maye to sit for the full year and let Jacoby Brissett play. That can be argued all day but what can't be argued is the Patriots now have one of the top quarterbacks available. Tomorrow night the 2nd and 3rd rounds will decide if Maye has fellow rookies to play with or someone like Aiyuk. Time will tell.

                                            "Yeah we drafted Maye, got a problem with it?"