{"id":609404,"date":"2026-04-27T14:42:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T14:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/609404\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T14:42:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T14:42:14","slug":"ill-get-drake-maye-coffee-from-starbucks-if-thats-what-he-needs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/609404\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ll get Drake Maye coffee from Starbucks if that&#8217;s what he needs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Age can be a funny thing in the NFL, particularly with the new landscape of college football. Take New England Patriots rookie quarterback <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break:break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/players\/behren-morton\/\" title=\"Behren Morton\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Behren Morton<\/a>, who is actually seven months older than starter <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break:break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/players\/drake-maye\/\" title=\"Drake Maye\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Drake Maye<\/a>, who enters Year 3 with MVP expectations.<\/p>\n<p>After being selected in the seventh round of the 2026 draft on Saturday, Morton noted that he and Maye met each other as Elite 11 finalists in the 2020 recruiting class. Morton spent the past five seasons at Texas Tech, starting three-and-a-half campaigns with the Red Raiders. Being selected in the draft&#8217;s final round, Morton knows he&#8217;ll have to do anything and everything to have a shot at even making the roster.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m really looking forward to picking (Maye&#8217;s) brain about what he&#8217;s done in the league so far. He&#8217;s been very successful this last year. So I&#8217;m going to do whatever it takes,&#8221; Morton said Saturday, <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break:break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.masslive.com\/patriots\/2026\/04\/patriots-rookie-qb-says-hell-get-drake-maye-coffee-from-starbucks-if-thats-what-it-takes.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">via Mass Live<\/a>. &#8220;If he needs a coffee from Starbucks, I&#8217;m there for Drake. Whatever he needs throughout this process, I&#8217;m here for him.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Age can be a funny thing in the NFL, particularly with the new landscape of college football. Take&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":609405,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[6255,52973,1826,399,398,396,397,1815,3,6257,215714,99],"class_list":["post-609404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-around-the-nfl","tag-behren-morton","tag-drake-maye","tag-football","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-new-england-patriots","tag-news","tag-no-minute","tag-offseason-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/609405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}