Film Session: Drake Maye's 2025 Season

Weeks 1-10

The Patriots are a surprising 8-2, and it’s due in no small part to their second-year quarterback. Through 10 games, Drake Maye is completing over 70% of his passes for 255 yards per game with a 19-5 TD-INT ratio and a 113.9 passer rating. He’s also run for 283 yards and 2 touchdowns.

The most impressive thing about Maye’s play, however, is his substantial improvement from college in less than 2 years. His physical talent has always been there, but the precision and nuance to his game have been increasing fast.

Great Ball Placement

Erratic was the way I’d characterize Maye’s ball placement in college. He sprayed the ball all over the field at times and frequently missed the lay-ups. Normally, that doesn’t improve when you get to the NFL.

Suddenly, it’s no longer an issue, though. In fact, Maye has not only improved in this department, he’s one of the best in the NFL right now at putting the ball exactly where he wants to with pinpoint accuracy:

He’s one of the few QBs who can consistently drill the ball into that cover-2 hole if he wants, like he did on this next example to set up the Pats’ game-winning field goal against Buffalo in Week 5.

Click here to view the entire Drake Maye Film Session where I’ll show you more than 35 plays from Maye’s first 10 games. These film sessions are available with a Founding Member subscription, which also gets you access to our playbook that has more than 80 breakdowns grouped by concept (e.g. passing game, running game, situational, coverages, pressures, etc.) and hundreds of examples from NFL games.