Drake Maye escapes concerning scenario fellow 2024 quarterback can't avoid

With every major quarterback draft class, the players are bound to be compared for the rest of their careers, and that's already the case with those selected in 2024, with Drake Maye and Caleb Williams at the top of the list. The Bears chose their franchise player with the first-overall pick, while the Patriots got theirs at No. 3, right after Jayden Daniels went to the Commanders.

Now that all three are headed into their third NFL season, the expectation is that we are going to start seeing their best football to date, and because of that, one has already been put on the cover of the latest Madden game.

It has prompted a lot of reactions from NFL fans, even those who cheer on the Patriots because they didn't choose Maye and instead put Williams on the cover. But it might be something New Englanders should be thankful for; they just might not understand that yet.

While it would be an incredible honor to be chosen as the face of the NFL's newest game, especially one as legendary as the Madden series, it's hard to forget the curse that appears to come with being the cover athlete.

Drake Maye should be thanking his lucky stars that he wasn't chosen for the Madden cover this year

For much of the last two decades, that player has gone on to suffer an injury the following season or deal with some really bad luck in the future.

That is not something Patriots fans would want for Maye, who is coming off an MVP runner-up season and could be very easily back on that path this fall. Risking what should be inevitable by being on the cover of Madden could come back to haunt the quarterback, and that is something fans would rather watch from afar than with their own team's quarterback.

Instead, watching Maye thrive with his new top receiver, AJ Brown, plus a list of other crucial additions like Romeo Doubs and Reggie Gilliam, with Alijah Vera-Tucker protecting him on the left side, will be a lot better than worrying about the apparent ramifications of being the Madden cover boy.

It's certainly an honor that players have every right to be excited about, but the fans who are superstitious or believe in the Madden conspiracy would want nothing more than for Maye to never grace the cover.

It would be a far less enjoyable season to watch with that hovering over your head, so hats off to the Bears and Williams for this accomplishment. Yet thanks but no thanks to those at Madden.

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