"He only has one nickname listed on his Pro Football Reference page, and it's his own first and last name. There's no Tom Terrific or TB12-style nickname for the second-year quarterback yet. He's Drake "Drake Maye" Maye. Patriots left tackle Will Campbell appeared to get a kick out of it when he poked his head into one of Maye's press conferences last month."
"What does the nickname mean? Even Patriots head coach Mike Vrabel isn't quite sure. "I just heard about it ten seconds ago," Vrabel said last month on WEEI. "I couldn't even figure out 6-7, and now it's Drake 'Drake Maye' Maye-Maye, I don't know." Kayshon Boutte also seemed perplexed by the nickname in a video clip that the Patriots posted to their X account."
Nicknames in sports often appear in quotation marks, with examples such as Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, "Broadway Joe" Namath, "Mean Joe" Greene, and "Prime Time" Deion Sanders. Patriots quarterback Drake Maye uniquely has his Pro Football Reference nickname listed as his full name: Drake "Drake Maye" Maye. Teammate Will Campbell interrupted a press conference to repeat the nickname, prompting a smiling Maye to say, "Get out of here rookie." Head coach Mike Vrabel expressed confusion, and Kayshon Boutte asked teammates what the nickname means. A prominent fan account on X offers to explain and regularly posts memes and videos about Maye.
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