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How Maye flashed high-end potential, and more minicamp takeaways originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston
FOXBORO — Jerod Mayo had a pretty good idea of what kind of player he was getting in Drake Maye when the Patriots turned in the card on their No. 3 overall choice in this year’s draft.
Maye’s athleticism and arm strength were apparent on tape. The level of toughness he brought to the quarterback position was clear at times, too, as he rebounded from some soul-rattling shots as a collegian. But until Mayo watched Maye up close and saw how he handled bad plays as a pro, it’d be hard to say for sure how the face of the franchise would cope in those moments.
Now, after spending almost two months around him, Mayo is getting a better feel for that element of Maye’s makeup.
“Look, this is a guy who we spent an extensive amount of time [getting to know] his background, his family, how he was on the field, how he was off the field,” Mayo said prior to Wednesday’s practice. “We knew the person that we were getting. I would say the surprising thing is just the way he’s able to pull the nose up, right?
“What I mean by saying that is he makes a bad throw, it’s out of his head. Move on to the next play. I think Jacoby [Brissett] has done a great job, as well as [offensive coordinator Alex Van Pelt] and the rest of the staff, really helping him out with that. You’re going to make mistakes, and this is the time to make those mistakes.”
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Mayo couldn’t have known it at the time, but he was foreshadowing how the final practice of minicamp was about to go for Maye. There were about to be bad plays. But Maye would pull his nose up and bounce back with some of the best plays of the week.
Here are some of our top takeaways from Wednesday’s minicamp session, beginning with what we saw from Maye…
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Author : NBC Sports Boston
Publish date : 2024-06-12 21:56:48
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