For all useful purposes, Drake Maye has had a strong season recruited with the New England Patriots. The team won only four games during the season, it was clear that changes should be made.
One of these changes consisted in revising its offensive system from 2024 and implementing a new one. This meant to pass from Alex Van Pelt as an offensive coordinator and bring Josh McDaniels back to town to fulfill this role.
McDaniels will work in close collaboration with Maye, but it will be the same for the coach of the new Quarts Ashton Grant. After spending five seasons to work as assistant with the Cleveland Browns, the head coach of the new Patriots, Mike Vrabel, brought him on board to work with Maye.
Changing the offensive on Maye in only its second professional season is not ideal, but the team thinks it has what it takes to pick up things quickly. So far, Grant is satisfied with what he saw From the second year passer, which is an encouraging early development for the team.
“Drake makes a hell of a job with a change in an offense to a new offense,” said Grant recently by addressing journalists. “He was a pro pro. He was super intentional with everything we asked him to do, so I couldn’t be happier from where he is right now.”
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McDaniels has already succeeded when he worked with a young quarter-Arrière, Mac Jones, in his system, only for his development to stop after leaving the patriots for the coach concert of the Raiders of Las Vegas. Hope is that it can help bring Maye’s development to another level after its 2024 encouragement season.
In 13 games last season, Maye launched for 2,276 yards and 15 affected, while rushing for 421 yards and another pair of scores. It was good enough to win a selection of the pro bowl and an eighth place in the recruit race of the offensive year.
Beyond upgrades to coaches staff, the front office has worked to get Maye more talent to work with the attack. If he can put everything together, the patriots could surprise many people in 2025.
