The New England Patriots’ 40-7 loss to the Los Angeles Chargers was a debacle, and it could have been even worse. On the team’s third offensive snap of the day, quarterback Drake Maye absorbed a head-to-head collision on a scramble.
Maye immediately went into the blue medical tent, and later left the field entirely to head to the locker room. However, his absence was a brief one: he cleared the concussion check and returned to the game in the early second quarter after having missed a total of three plays.
“Just kind of got my bell rung on the first drive,” Maye later explained.