{"id":178845,"date":"2025-09-30T00:10:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T00:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/178845\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T00:10:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T00:10:12","slug":"patriots-wr-stefon-diggs-gives-honest-thoughts-on-drake-maye-as-nfl-qb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/178845\/","title":{"rendered":"Patriots WR Stefon Diggs gives honest thoughts on Drake Maye as NFL QB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran wide receiver Stefon Diggs admitted he&#8217;s excited about the future with the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/new-england-patriots\/348\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:New England Patriots;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">New England Patriots<\/a> and Drake Maye at quarterback.<\/p>\n<p>The four-time Pro Bowler had high praise for Maye when speaking with media members after the Patriots&#8217; 42-13 blowout victory over the Carolina Panthers on Sunday. There was plenty to be excited about for Diggs, who had a season-high six receptions for 101 yards.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>It marked the 37th 100-plus receiving yard performance of his NFL career, and the first performance of that kind he&#8217;s had since joining the Patriots.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe had a hell of a day. He\u2019s a good quarterback,&#8221; Diggs said of Maye. &#8220;He\u2019s starting to come along as you can see. He looks sharp out there. I\u2019m just excited for the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The growing rapport between Diggs and Maye can only mean good things later in the season, when the playoff race tightens and teams need to be at their best.<\/p>\n<p>Follow Patriots Wire on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Patriots_Wire?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Twitter;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PatriotsWire\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Facebook;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Patriots Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/patriotswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/patriots\/2025\/09\/29\/patriots-stefon-diggs-thoughts-drake-maye-nfl-quarterback\/86410645007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Patriots WR Stefon Diggs gives honest thoughts on Drake Maye as NFL QB;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Patriots WR Stefon Diggs gives honest thoughts on Drake Maye as NFL QB<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Veteran wide receiver Stefon Diggs admitted he&#8217;s excited about the future with the New England Patriots and Drake&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178846,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,1744,2221,1718,514,90861,82,13956],"class_list":["post-178845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-carolina-panthers","tag-drake-maye","tag-new-england-patriots","tag-nfl","tag-pro-bowler","tag-sports","tag-stefon-diggs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}