Drake Maye handled the comparability even earlier than the New England Patriots chosen him No. 3 total.
However it’s much more in Maye’s face this week because the awful Patriots get set to face the division-rival Buffalo Payments on Sunday in a Week 16 matchup.
Maye is checked out as a Josh Allen prototype. The 2 quarterbacks play an analogous type, with highly effective arms able to making all of the throws and a capability to make performs with their legs all of the whereas possessing a gunslinger’s mentality.
Maye continues to be seeking to cement himself within the NFL, although, whereas Allen is working away with the league’s MVP award in his seventh season. And that sizable hole doesn’t go unnoticed by Maye.
“I feel I’ve acquired a protracted strategy to go,” Maye informed reporters at Gillette Stadium on Wednesday, per team-provided transcript. “What a participant he’s, enjoying at an MVP degree. I feel the most important factor is simply the development he’s made. I feel what he handled, whether or not popping out of school or his first years right here, I really feel like all people was simply type of not giving him the credit score he deserved. Now, you’ll be able to see type of the complete fruition of what he’s doing and the extent he’s enjoying at. Simply, like I stated, enjoyable to look at, and I feel I’ve acquired a protracted strategy to go to get to anyplace near enjoying at his degree.”
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Maye is correct. Allen’s progress over time is placing and may give the Patriots the assumption that Maye might flip into that caliber of participant if he continues his upward trajectory.
Allen struggled as a rookie in 2018, finishing simply 52.8% of his passes for two,074 yards with 10 touchdowns and 12 interceptions in 11 begins. Maye’s numbers — 68.5% completion proportion, 1,898 yards passing, 12 touchdowns and 9 interceptions — truly are higher than that. However Allen took an enormous step in his second season earlier than occurring to develop into a perennial MVP candidate.
That’s a blueprint the Patriots would love for Maye to observe. Allen certain sees a promising future in retailer for Maye, as dwelling as much as the Allen comparability would imply the North Carolina product reached his potential.
“What a particular participant,” Maye stated. “He’s enjoying at a extremely excessive degree. It’s been enjoyable to look at a few of his highlights in a number of the video games. They’ve acquired lots of prime time video games, so anytime Josh is on, I’m an enormous fan of his, an enormous fan of his recreation. I acquired to fulfill him a pair instances all through my time simply crossing paths, and he’s an superior dude. He’s an ideal participant, and what he’s performed for Buffalo and the way they embrace him is fairly cool and fairly admirable.”
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