FOXBORO — From a loaded quarterback draft class that has seen seven different players start games already this season, Drake Maye is eclipsing them all.

Quite frankly, it’s not even close eight games into Year 2 as the Patriots get prepared to face one of Maye’s peers, Michael Penix Jr., and the Falcons on Sunday.

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Maye stacks up among the NFL’s best quarterbacks in all standard and advanced stats. He’s playing like an MVP candidate while the rest of the quarterbacks from the 2024 NFL Draft class, Caleb Williams (Bears), Jayden Daniels (Commanders), Penix, J.J. McCarthy (Vikings), Bo Nix (Broncos) and Spencer Rattler (Saints), are hovering around the middle of the league’s pack or worse.

Maye’s in a class of his own among second-year QBs.

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