Picture a young QB, pressure closing in like a collapsing pocket. Hands grab, the play should be dead. But the arm whips, the ball spirals impossibly far, landing softly in a receiver’s grasp. It’s the kind of play that makes you rewind the tape, the kind that whispers “special,” even amidst the chaos. That was Drake Maye on Wednesday in Eagan, Minnesota.

Flicking a 30-yard dime to Kayshon Boutte after Jonathan Greenard had already breached the pocket for a would-be sack. A loss of six became a huge gain. Poetry in motion, born from pandemonium.

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