Everyone has draft opinions. In fact, I'd argue that almost too many people have draft opinions. The problem with having the NFL season end *three months* before the draft is that something has to fill the void, and I guess we all collectively decided at some point to make that draft content? I missed that memo. Everywhere you look there are big boards, and hot takes, and big boards with hot takes, and hot takes about those big boards with hot takes.
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Drake Maye's apparently no different. While appearing on Kay Adam's morning show from the side of a random golf hole down in Mexico – where the NFLPA Classic tournament is currently taking place – Maye was asked what he thought the Patriots' draft plan should be with the fourth overall pick. His answer will probably not surprise you at all. But it might!
Drake Maye has some thoughts on the Patriots' draft strategy
"At four? I think you take the best player. I think you take the best player available," he told Adams. "Any one of those guys – I don't want to put my foot in my mouth here. Whoever wants to come to New England and win some football games."
A BPA guy! Maye clearly has a Pro Football Focus account. And quite frankly, this reads way more like a quote that's trying not to say anything at all than one that's trying to force the Patriots to go in a certain direction. It's the perfect answer in that it's 1. entirely empty, without even a hint of controversy and 2. still somehow extremely bloggable. You just know he aced all of his team-issued media training classes. Credit to Adams for trying – and succeeding, to a certain extent – to get Maye to give one (1) single interesting answer in the five-ish minutes he was sitting down with her.
Honestly, the Stefon Diggs conversation they had may end up being the more telling response. Instagram follows are a major currency in today's NFL (I don't make the rules), and Maye's grin when asked about Diggs was hard to ignore. As far as "total leaps in logic based off arbitrary body language cues" goes, that one was way juicier than flatly saying that the Patriots should draft the best player with their best pick. But at least now you know: Drake Maye, big BPA guy. Or at least that's what the Patriots told him to be.