Quarterback · New England Patriots

Drake Maye

No. 10 · 3rd season

The people who coach and scout quarterbacks for a living just put Drake Maye in the top ten

It's one thing for fans to believe. It's another when the people whose jobs depend on being right start nodding.

Drake Maye arrived in New England as the face of a rebuild — a young quarterback handed the keys to one of the NFL's most storied franchises at a moment when very little around him was ready to win. The early read on Maye was always about potential: what he could become, not what he already was.

Now ESPN asked coaches, executives, and scouts across the league to rank the best quarterbacks in the NFL. Maye landed eighth. He also finished as the runner-up for MVP.

Eighth in the league, voted on by the people who prepare game plans against him. That is not a fan poll. That is a professional consensus, and in a sport where reputations take years to build, it arrived fast.

The question for Maye has never really been whether the talent is there. It's always been whether everything else catches up in time. People who watch quarterbacks for a living seem to think it already has.

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