FOXBORO — Patriots quarterback Drake Maye seems to have a brand new favourite red-zone goal in prime free-agent addition Stefon Diggs.
Diggs isn’t the most important goal at 6-feet, 191 kilos, however the extensive receiver’s mentality offers Maye confidence to focus on the veteran extensive receiver when issues get tight close to the tip zone.
“I feel it’s simply mindset. It’s attacking the soccer,” Maye mentioned Thursday. “You recognize, a man like that, a man of his stature who’s caught a number of touchdowns on this league and made a number of massive performs, he needs to go get the soccer. He tells me on a regular basis, simply, ‘if the balls within the air, it’s gonna be mine.’ So I feel that it’s comforting listening to that from these guys. And I feel that’s form of began to develop into one thing within the receiver room, that’s the mindset. The ball’s within the air, go get it. So I feel it’s, it’s comfy listening to that.”
Maye does have two massive targets in tight ends Hunter Henry and Austin Hooper. One other larger cross catcher, 6-foot-4, 221-pound extensive receiver Mack Hollins, additionally returned to observe off of the PUP checklist on Thursday.