Drake Maye performed as well as possible as a rookie despite minimal supporting talent. The Patriots added Eliot Wolf and Mike Vrabel and retained offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels, creating a coaching environment aimed at accelerating Maye's growth. Maye now has improved on-field talent, including potential breakout Kayshon Boutte and established playmakers like Stefon Diggs and TreVeyon Henderson. New England's early-season schedule includes three of four home games against teams with weak pass defenses, offering opportunities for a strong start. Among his draft-class peers, Maye projects to make one of the largest second-year leaps and to lead a potential Patriots turnaround.
Slumps are common for second-year quarterbacks in the NFL, but fortunately, so are leaps. And it continues to grow inevitable that we'll see more of the latter from Drake Maye in his second season with the Patriots. Maye did as much as he could with practically nothing as a rookie, but in Year Two, Eliot Wolf and Mike Vrabel have set their second-year quarterback up for a strong sophomore campaign.
Jeff Howe of the New York Times agrees, pointing to the offseason work that Maye put in with Vrabel and offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels has the new coaching staff optimistic about a second-year jump for the quarterback. A Patriots' turnaround after back-to-back 4-13 seasons is not impossible to believe in at this point, and Maye is at the forefront of that.
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