NFL Rumors: Patriots ‘No longer a Slam Dunk’ to Draft QB at No. 3 amid Drake Maye Buzz

The Novel England Patriots may more than doubtless throw the most fundamental large curveball of the 2024 NFL draft, in step with ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler.

The feeble knowledge is that the Patriots will exercise the No. 3 hang on a quarterback given their evident need for one. Nonetheless, Fowler reported on SportsCenter they’re “cheerful with [Jacoby Brissett] as a bridge starter taking half in some games subsequent One year no matter what they construct at quarterback” and that “or no longer it is no longer even a slam dunk they lift a quarterback simply now.”

“I’ve talked to a pair groups that are drafting within the dwell 10-12 that shock if the quarterback they desire is rarely any longer there at No. 3 construct they gorgeous lift a Marvin Harrison Jr., stockpile some picks,” he mentioned.

Novel England gorgeous hosted North Carolina’s Drake Maye and may more than doubtless welcome in LSU’s Jayden Daniels, but NFL Community’s Ian Rapoport reported or no longer it is unclear how the franchise views either on the finish of the day:

NBC Sports activities Boston’s Tom E. Curran painted a a shrimp bit of a form of portray than Fowler when he reported Thursday on the Patriots Talk Podcast that Novel England may more than doubtless well be preserving out for more than three first-spherical picks to alternate help.

The Pats were inserting this type of excessive label on a deal “on fable of they as a group collectively observe the chance that these three quarterbacks portray on the dwell of the draft,” per Curran.

That would reputedly expose an internal perception that whoever is accessible at No. 3 is worth building spherical as the franchise quarterback, whether that is Daniels, Maye, or more than doubtless Michigan’s J.J. McCarthy.

Each and each the Patriots and Washington Commanders are sitting barely simply now.

They every have a easy path to landing their QB of the future, and few would bat an imagine if Daniels and Maye go 2nd or third in no matter present.

The expected trudge on quarterbacks moreover provides to the desperation level for the groups out of doors of the dwell 5. The Novel York Giants (No. 6), Minnesota Vikings (No. 11), Denver Broncos (No. 12), Las Vegas Raiders (No. 13) are all left to shock within the event that they may be able to come up with the money for to stand pat on fable of someone else may more than doubtless leapfrog them. Agreeing to a alternate with Novel England or Washington solves that subject.

From the Patriots’ point of view, it seems they’ve forged a huge web when it comes to their scouting so that they will have a complete lot of targets in thoughts within the event that they successfully transfer out of location to get hang of a quarterback.