Dan Orlovsky’s thoughts on the limited Drake Maye debut: Though Drake Maye played only a single series in his NFL preseason debut on Thursday against the Panthers, he won at least one fan among quarterback analysts.
Former NFL quarterback Dan Orlovsky, now an analyst with ESPN, focused in on the smaller details amid a limited sample size of Maye’s first game.
“I wanted to see three things,” said Orlovsky. “Number one: What was he like as an under-center quarterback? [He] did not do that a lot at Carolina. Number two: Has he cleaned up some of the mechanics when it comes to the top of his drop, and standing too straight up and not having a good base?