Quarterback · New England Patriots

Drake Maye

No. 10 · 3rd season

The Patriots aren't calling last year a fluke — they're calling it the starting point

There is a version of a young quarterback's first real season where the organization quietly hopes it was a sign of things to come. In New England, they are saying it out loud.

Drake Maye came up through a Patriots team that had very little around him — a roster in transition, a franchise finding its footing after years of a very different era. What he did under those conditions was enough to get people's attention.

Now general manager Eliot Wolf has said plainly that inside the building, what Maye did last season is not seen as a one-time thing. They believe it was a floor — meaning the expectation is that things only go from there.

That kind of institutional confidence matters. It is one thing for a fan base to believe in a young player. It is another for the people who make the decisions to say, openly, that they are building a plan around it.

Maye is still early in his career. But the organization just told everyone how they see him — and they said it without hedging.

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