If you were grading Drake Maye ’s Sunday evening on a fantasy football scale, it was a bank examiner special. The QB4 on the year entering the proceedings, and the QB1 over the previous three weeks, Maye produced “only” 285 scoreless yards as he finished as the QB23 on the week. Tough stuff.

If you were just allowing yourself to enjoy the game of football, however, you saw the official arrival of a star, maybe even a superstar. Playing in the biggest game of his young career, Maye stuck one huge throw after another as the Pats beat the last undefeated team in the league 23-20 on the road.

He made more big plays than Josh Allen, as well as fewer mistakes. Allen’s former castoff WR1? Maye hit Stefon Diggs 10 times for 146 yards. This was a one-game sample size. This is, after all, the

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