FOXBOROUGH, Mass. -- University of Tennessee quarterback Joe Milton III was caught off guard on the third day of the NFL draft in late April.
He had hats from all 32 NFL teams laid out in front of him. As he awaited the phone call from the team that might draft him, envisioning the joy he would experience by picking up the hat with that team's logo, Milton had all but ruled out the dark blue Patriots lid as a possibility.
It made sense. The Patriots already had selected North Carolina quarterback Drake Maye with the No.