FOXBOROUGH — Jerod Mayo stressed on Wednesday morning that the decision to start Drake Maye in Week 6 gives the Patriots the “best chance to win now and going forward.”
But even if New England believes that the 22-year-old QB raises the ceiling of a Patriots offense averaging a league-worst 119.4 passing yards per contest, Mayo stressed that veteran QB Jacoby Brissett still holds plenty of value as a leader on this roster.
“Jacoby’s a warrior,” Mayo said. “And he took the news very well, like a professional, like you would expect from a guy like that … His leadership was not just what he did on the field, but also off the field, and my expectation that he agreed was that he would continue to be a leader on our football team.