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Drake Maye

Drake Maye is a quarterback for the New England Patriots. Depth chart: QB1.

Scouting report

Drake Maye: the full picture

Written automatically from Gridiron Value model data · updated October 20, 2026

Drake Maye at a glance

Drake Maye is a 24-year-old quarterback for the New England Patriots, listed at 6'4" and 225 pounds. The New England Patriots drafted Maye 3rd overall in the first round in 2024, out of North Carolina; this is year three in the league.

2026 projection

Our season projection has Maye at 367.3 PPR points for 2026, which ranks QB2 at the position and works out to 21.6 points per game over 17.0 projected games. The stat line behind that number is 5,177 passing yards, 28.4 passing touchdowns, 395 rushing yards and 4.8 rushing touchdowns. The model does not treat that as a promise: the range of outcomes runs from 38 points at the 5th percentile to 520 at the 95th, with a median of 367 and 61% projection confidence.

2026 season so far

Through 6 games of 2026, Maye has scored 111.0 PPR points, or 18.5 per game. That is 30.2% of the full-season projection; at the current rate Maye would finish with about 315 points, behind the 367.3 projected. The best week so far is 39.5 points in Week 5 against LV, the QB1 finish that week. Maye has cleared the 18-point mark we count as a usable QB start in 3 of 6 games, a 50% consistency rate.

Percentile profile

Measured against the 34 qualified quarterbacks of 2026, Maye ranks in the 90th percentile in intended air yards, the 87th percentile in rush yards and the 84th percentile in td rate. Six of the 8 tracked categories sit at or above the 75th percentile. The softest mark is the 10th percentile in interception rate.

Career track record

By season-long PPR scoring, Maye has finished as QB22 in 2024 and QB2 in 2025. One of those 2 seasons ended inside the top twelve. The high-water mark is 352.0 PPR points in 2025. Across 36 regular-season games on record, the totals read 8,133 passing yards, 57 passing touchdowns, 1,056 rushing yards and 7 rushing touchdowns.

Drake Maye by the numbers

Maye has been the highest-scoring quarterback of the week 2 times, finished in the weekly top five at the position 7 times and finished in the top twelve 16 times. The career high is 39.5 PPR points, set in Week 5 of 2026 against LV, the top QB score of that week. The game log also shows 2 games of 30 or more PPR points, 2 300-yard passing games and 9 games with three or more touchdowns. In all, Maye has reached 20 points in 13 games, 36% of career appearances.

How the production happens

In 2026, Maye threw 7.4 deep passes per game (15 or more air yards) and completed 51% of them, against 22.8 short attempts per game at 70%. About 9.0 passes per game fell incomplete. Average time to throw was 2.97 seconds.

Contract

Maye is playing on a four-year, $36.6 million contract signed with the New England Patriots in 2024, an average of $9.2 million per year with $36.6 million guaranteed. The deal runs through the 2027 season.

Dynasty market

In dynasty formats Maye carries a GV stock price of 5,883, which ranks 27th overall and QB9 among quarterbacks out of 940 priced players. In redraft the same model ranks Maye 33rd overall. Value has moved down 5.3 since the previous model run. The closest profiles by the similarity model are Baker Mayfield, Cam Ward and Daniel Jones. See where Maye sits on the trade value chart.

2026 projected stat line

Projected PPR
367.3
PPR / game
21.6
Pass yards
5,177
Pass TD
28.4
Rush yards
395
Rush TD
4.8

Drake Maye fantasy outlook

Drake Maye enters the 2026 season with NE and ranks QB2 and #2 overall in the current Gridiron Value projection. The model projects 367.2 PPR points across 17.0 games, or 21.6 points per game, placing the expected outcome in an elite fantasy tier. The preseason depth chart lists Drake Maye as QB1, so the opportunity forecast is tied to that current role rather than name value alone. In 2025, Drake Maye produced 352.0 PPR points in 17 games (20.7 per game), giving the projection a recent performance baseline. Projection confidence is 58%, with a 92% modeled chance of a Top-24 positional finish. The main variables are role stability, team scoring volume, and normal efficiency variance.

Week 1 projection

Drake Maye is projected for 19.7 PPR points on the road at SEA in week 1, with a likely range of 1.1 to 48.2.

Trade value

Gridiron Value prices every player from 0 to 100 within each league format. Value is down 5.3 since the previous model run (falling).

Redraft
57.3
Dynasty
57.0
Superflex redraft
94.7
Superflex dynasty
94.8
TE premium dynasty
34.4

Compare Drake Maye on the trade value chart

Career stats

SeasonTeamGCmpAttPass ydsPass TDIntRush ydsRush TDPPR
2026NE61171831,4631171851111.0
2025NE173544924,3943184504352.0
2024NE132253382,27615104212177.1

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