{"id":699012,"date":"2026-06-12T04:13:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T04:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/699012\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T04:13:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T04:13:10","slug":"drake-maye-makes-a-favorable-first-impression-with-a-j-brown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/699012\/","title":{"rendered":"Drake Maye makes a favorable first impression with A.J. Brown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A.J. Brown has caught passes from Ryan Tannehill, Marcus Mariota, Jalen Hurts, Gardner Minshew and Kenny Pickett. Now, after a trade to the Patriots, the wide receiver has Drake Maye as his quarterback.<\/p>\n<p>In nine days, Maye has made a favorable impression with Brown.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.boston.com\/sports\/new-england-patriots\/2026\/06\/11\/patriots-aj-brown-drake-maye-minicamp-comments\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">The talent speaks for itself<\/a>. He can make any throw,\u201d Brown said, via Khari Thompson of Boston.com. \u201cBut, I think what\u2019s more impressive to me is that he knows what he\u2019s doing. To be that young and to understand the defenses and to understand every little check, the hots, the blitzes all those things, so young, so fast, it\u2019s very impressive. I really admire that. He knows what he is talking about. He demands everybody else to know as well. He\u2019s a true leader of men. It\u2019s crazy to see at a young age.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Maye has made the Pro Bowl each of his first two seasons and led the Patriots to the Super Bowl in the 2025 season, and Brown can understand why. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s hard not to get excited,\u201d Brown said. \u201cWhat a player he is, and just right off the bat, what a great teammate so far. He was eager to learn. He\u2019s great with the guys in the locker room, and we just look forward to playing with a guy of that caliber.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know he\u2019s been a great player in this league. He\u2019s gone everywhere. He\u2019s been a guy that you see on SportsCenter the next day, making plays and scoring. The best thing about him, he\u2019s been a winner. He knows what it\u2019s like to win, and he\u2019s someone in that room that we were looking for. I think that\u2019s the best thing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A.J. Brown has caught passes from Ryan Tannehill, Marcus Mariota, Jalen Hurts, Gardner Minshew and Kenny Pickett. Now,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":699013,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-699012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699012","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=699012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/699013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}