ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — Back in the spring, when he signed a rich free-agent contract with the Patriots, Carlton Davis studied a player’s highlight video on his phone.

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Not bad, he thought.

Davis had pulled up Drake Maye’s highlights from his rookie season, a rare year where a quarterback can start 12 games, play 11 from start to finish, win only one and be considered a success. It didn’t take long for Davis, an ex-Buccaneers and Lions cornerback, to understand why.

“I watched his highlights, and I was like, ‘Oh s—, he got something to him,'” Davis remembered Sunday, after the Patriots’ 23-20 win at Buffalo. “And then just watching him practice and watching him grow through (training) camp, watching him grow through the season, I never doubted him. … He can be a dual threa

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