A three-month process led the Patriots to spurn trade offers and pick the guy they wanted — their quarterback of the future — at No. 3.
FOXBORO, Mass. — Eliot Wolf didn’t wait. It didn’t matter that he still had plenty of time on the clock, crucial minutes to potentially field trade offers from a slew of desperate teams with similar feelings about Drake Maye. With time to spare, the sent their pick to the league. Advertisement They wanted Maye. A few weeks ago, the Patriots, like the rest of the league, learned that the planned on taking Jayden Daniels with the second pick.
The Patriots’ de facto general manager noted that Maye, unlike some of the other top collegiate quarterbacks, met with the media after every game, win or loss, and said all the right things. “Not that the Chapel Hill media is as tough as , but he handled it with grace, with class,” Wolf said. “Watching those press conferences, there were a lot of times where the reporters were trying to get him to throw somebody under the bus and he wouldn’t do it.
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