Drake Maye describes his experience learning from Tom Brady

As he gets accustomed to the NFL, Drake Maye is learning from a Patriots legend while he begins his time in New England, spending some time with Tom Brady.

The third-overall pick from the 2024 NFL Draft, Maye has massive expectations on his shoulders at the moment. While Brady didn’t come into the NFL with similar expectations, he certainly developed them over the course of his career.

Speaking with the media, Maye explained what it was like to learn from Brady for a bit when the pair linked up earlier in May, and what the legendary No. 12 for the Patriots has taught him so far.

“It was awesome,” Maye said, regarding the experience of spending some time with Brady. “Getting a chance to be around Tom, seeing how he’s wired — he’s wired different.

“He’s the GOAT, so just getting a chance to hear some wisdom from him, was an awesome experience. I look forward to hopefully asking him some more questions.”

If there’s one shoulder Maye can lean on as he develops as an NFL quarterback, Brady is a pretty awesome source of information to have. Nobody is saying the former North Carolina quarterback is going to turn into TB12, but utilizing the resources that he has, Maye can develop into a top quarterback if he cultivates his talent.

Time will tell, and it’s going to take some time, but New England is excited about Drake Maye, and the Patriots are hoping he has as lengthy and successful of a tenure as Tom Brady had with the franchise.

Jerod Mayo on developing Drake Maye: ‘He has a lot to work on’

Moreover, head coach Jerod Mayo and the rest of the New England Patriots have been getting their first look at third overall pick Drake Maye over the last month and change.

As a quarterback taken early in the first round of the NFL Draft, there are massive expectations on Maye’s shoulders. Still, as of now, Mayo made it clear that he’s not a finished product yet and there’s a lot to work on in his development. 

“Early impressions of Drake? He has a lot to work on,” Jerod Mayo said. “He has a lot to work on, but I have no doubt he will put in the time. You didn’t see him out here yesterday, but he was here all night trying to get on the same page as everyone else.”

What Drake Maye is currently working on goes beyond just the practice field, though, as he also needs to put in hard work to get up to speed with everything off the practice field, too.

“It comes down to time. That’s the biggest hurdle. Then you work under some of these phase two, phase three rules where you don’t have as much time as you want to, so you can’t have those conversations,” Mayo said. “But it’s all about hard work works. We talk about it all the time and he’s working hard. So, day one is hard to really say, ‘This guy did X, Y, and Z.’”

For the time being, the person most responsible for Maye’s growth within the Patriots building is going to be offensive coordinator Alex Van Pelt.

“Across the league, most offensive coordinators interact with the quarterback — the starting quarterback for the most part. We do have a group of coaches that have quarterback backgrounds,” Mayo said. “But I would say overall it would be AVP as far as that…with Drake, with Jacoby [Brissett]. We don’t know who the starter is. So, AVP will be in all of those.”