New England Patriots
“He’s doing no matter they want him to, and he can rating the ball at will, and he does it nonchalantly.”
Drake Maye is making a really compelling argument to win NFL MVP in simply his second season within the professional ranks.
As anticipated, the 23-year-old Patriots has largely brushed apart all discuss of his particular person success, even when he leads the NFL in passer ranking (112.9) and completion proportion (71.7) — whereas additionally throwing for 4,203 yards and 30 touchdowns towards simply eight interceptions.
As an alternative, Maye has opted to focus extra on the success of the 2025 Patriots, with New England at the moment holding onto the No. 2 seed within the AFC with a 13-3 report.
And during his weekly interview with WEEI Afternoons on Monday, Maye opted to prop up one other Boston athlete who’s making a respectable push for MVP this season: Celtics star Jaylen Brown.
“I’d say one hundred pc,” Maye mentioned when requested about Brown’s standing as an MVP candidate this season. “I believe he’s had what, what number of video games with 30-plus [points]? I believe he simply had a pair video games with 40 [points]. He’s doing no matter they want him to, and he can rating the ball at will, and he does it nonchalantly. Seems to be like he’s not even making an attempt on the market.”
“He got here out in my brother’s [Luke Maye] class,” Maye added. “Considered going with my brother to North Carolina however he ended up higher off … going to Cal. So I believe undoubtedly, for certain.”
Brown has made probably the most of this season taking on as Boston’s high choice whereas Jayson Tatum recovers from a ruptured Achilles tendon.
Via 29 video games this season, Brown is averaging a career-best 29.7 factors per recreation to go together with 6.3 rebounds and 4.8 assists per recreation.
Brown dropped a game-high 37 factors in Sunday’s loss to Portland, marking his ninth-straight, 30-point efficiency. That ties a franchise report set by Larry Chook, with Brown now reaching that 30-point threshold in 12 of his final 13 video games.
Despite the fact that Maye hasn’t entertained a lot of the discourse concerning his personal MVP odds, his head coach and several other of his teammates have answered the decision to prop up their star QB.
“They don’t give me [an MVP] vote, however I might [give it to him],” Mike Vrabel mentioned Sunday. “There’s no one else that we wish as our quarterback or that I need as our quarterback.”
Stefon Diggs has seen Maye develop from a promising expertise right into a respectable star in brief order, despite the fact that the veteran wideout was candid on Sunday when requested if he anticipated his QB to take such a leap in two years.
“No, I didn’t,” Diggs informed NFL Community’s Mike Garafolo postgame Sunday when requested if he anticipated Maye to turn out to be a MVP expertise so quickly. “He stunned all of us. I knew he was going to be good, however nah, I didn’t know he was going to be this good.”
“I’m simply tremendous happy with him. He approaches this recreation in the best manner, man. I look ahead to seeing extra of him.”
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