Drake Maye Rumors: Patriots Set to Draft QB Barring Huge Giants, Vikings Trade Offer | News, Scores, Highlights, Stats, and Rumors

The New England Patriots are tipping their hand hours earlier than the 2024 NFL draft, based on Tom E. Curran of NBC Sports activities Boston.

Curran reported Thursday the Patriots are anticipated to pick out North Carolina quarterback Drake Maye with the No. 3 choose except one other workforce “makes them a proposal they simply cannot refuse.” He cited the Minnesota Vikings and New York Giants particularly as potentialities.

NFL insider Jordan Schultz added the Giants have been making a play for the No. 3 choose in hopes of touchdown Maye:

Maye is the No. 3 overall player on Bleacher Report’s final big board and was projected to land in New England with the third choose in B/R’s ultimate mock.

“Merely put, as one Patriots supply stated late final week, ‘you’ll be able to’t win with out a quarterback'” Reiss wrote. “[Head coach Jerod] Mayo and a few high decision-makers have privately acknowledged that their legacies will likely be tied to no matter they determine at quarterback.”

There isn’t any greater want for New England than quarterback going into the draft. After buying and selling Mac Jones to the Jacksonville Jaguars, the workforce is for now taking a look at Jacoby Brissett or Bailey Zappe because the starter in 2024. Neither is anyone you’d count on to assist lead a serious rebuild.

Buying and selling again would enable for Mayo and director of scouting Eliot Wolf to strengthen extra areas of the roster, and Maye is not thought-about the sort of can’t-miss prospect who’s a surefire lock to emerge as a perennial Professional Bowler.

However the Patriots higher be getting a king’s ransom within the occasion they transfer out of the No. 3 spot.