Drake Maye: QB · North Carolina · #10.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
Drake Maye
Runs when the pocket breaks down. Third year in the same quarterback room at North Carolina. All-ACC in 2023 made it two straight seasons on the honors list. A game that shows it: 442 passing yards and 55 rushing yards against Syracuse — Week 6, 2023.
Play style
Dangerous with both arm and legs — defenses can't just pin the ears back.
Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long
Where the completions actually land
58.1% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 26.0% conversion-per-dropback — 48.0% of completions land short of the sticks.
Where completions land is fact — whether incompletions were aimed deep is intent, not recorded here, so this card counts completions only. checkdown by design
Short-yardage / goal-line · enumeration
Who gets the tough yard
9 of the team's 29 inside-the-5 carries (31.0%).
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
247Sports Nov 3
Syracuse.com Oct 22Swipe the table sideways for more columns.
| Season | Team | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | North Carolina | 269 | 425 | 63.3% | 3,608 | 8.5 | 24 | 9 | 149.0 | 66 |
| 2022 | North Carolina | 342 | 516 | 66.3% | 4,321 | 8.4 | 38 | 7 | 158.2 | 71 |
| 2021 | North Carolina | 7 | 10 | 70.0% | 89 | 8.9 | 1 | 0 | 177.8 | -- |
| Career | 618 | 951 | 65.0% | 8,018 | 8.4 | 63 | 16 | 154.3 | 69 |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | North Carolina | 112 | 449 | 4.0 | 9 | 56 |
| 2022 | North Carolina | 184 | 699 | 3.8 | 7 | 42 |
| 2021 | North Carolina | 6 | 62 | 10.3 | 0 | 19 |
| Career | 302 | 1,210 | 4.0 | 16 | 56 |
Game log · Week-by-week
2023 season · 12 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 31-17vs South Carolina | 24/32 | 269 | 2 | 2 | 8.4 | 86.3 | |
| Wk 2 | W 40-34vs App State | 21/30 | 208 | 0 | 0 | 6.9 | 82.7 | |
| Wk 3 | W 31-13vs Minnesota | 29/40 | 414 | 2 | 2 | 10.4 | 81.3 | |
| Wk 4 | W 41-24@ Pittsburgh | 22/30 | 296 | 1 | 0 | 9.9 | 94.2 | |
| Wk 6 | W 40-7vs Syracuse | 33/47 | 442 | 3 | 0 | 9.4 | 85.4 | Season-high 442 yds |
| Wk 7 | W 41-31vs No. 25 Miami | 17/33 | 273 | 4 | 0 | 8.3 | 70.4 | 4 TD passes |
| Wk 8 | L 27-31vs Virginia | 24/48 | 347 | 2 | 1 | 7.2 | 44.3 | |
| Wk 9 | L 42-46@ Georgia Tech | 17/25 | 310 | 2 | 0 | 12.4 | 88.3 | Clean 2-TD game |
| Wk 10 | W 59-7vs Campbell | 16/23 | 244 | 4 | 0 | 10.6 | 61.9 | 4 TD passes |
| Wk 11 | W 47-45vs Duke | 28/43 | 342 | 1 | 1 | 8.0 | 84.8 | |
| Wk 12 | L 20-31@ Clemson | 16/36 | 209 | 1 | 1 | 5.8 | 76.7 | |
| Wk 13 | L 20-39@ NC State | 22/38 | 254 | 2 | 2 | 6.7 | 73.7 | |
| Total | 269/425 | 3608 | 24 | 9 | 8.5 | — |
Week 7 · 2023
W 41-31
vs Miami
273 yds · 4 TD · 0 INT · QBR 70.4 · 10 rush yds (10 car)
Edged out Miami at home in a shootout.
With O. Hampton — 197 rush yds (24 car) · 1 TD · 2 rec · 20 yds · 1 TD · T. Maginness — 38.3 yards per punt · 6 punts · 2 inside the 20
The plays that mattered most
Pass Profile · Completions by yards gained (PBP)
Adjusted ANY/A, sack rate, and where the yards came from
Totals here are the box score's. Play-by-play lists 412 passing plays (263 completions) against the box score's 425 attempts (269 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
7.9047 of 212 QBsSack rate
6.0%116 of 212 QBsSacked on 6.0% of dropbacks (116 of 212) — and still 47 of 212 in Adjusted ANY/A.
Adjusted ANY/A uses full-season box-score totals (attempts, yards, TDs, INTs); sack rate is play-by-play-derived.
Short
0–9 ydsMiddle
10–19 ydsDeep
20+ ydsOverall 63.3% completion on 425 attempts · 44 deep completions averaging 35.0 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2023 baseline
No situation moves him more than 34 percentile points from his baseline.
Deltas are vs. this player’s own season baseline, never a league average. League sack rate by down is shown as context because sack attribution isn’t incompletion-denominated.
3 seasons under Mack Brown — 23-17 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2023 season · 12 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home7g | 324 | 2.3 | 8.7 | 0.6 |
| Road4g | 267 | 1.5 | 8.7 | 0.8 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 317 | 2.0 | 8.9 | 0.7 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 284 | 2.0 | 8.5 | 0.8 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Mack Brown
Pass share
48.5%
460 pass / 489 run
Plays / game
73.0
13 games
Scheme: Balanced.
Player standing · 2023
Picked for an all-conference team by at least one selector.
The All-Conference honor is earned — and the box score backs it up emphatically: #10 of 140 FBS quarterbacks by CFB Zeitgeist Score.2023 profile
Recognition
Production · CFB Zeitgeist Score
Former four-star. Now #10 at the position.
Career, closed
Gone at #3 overall.
How it ended
Three seasons at North Carolina, 8,018 passing yards, a first-team All-Conference season (2022) — drafted at #3 overall by the New England Patriots.
A blue-chip recruit with honors.
The role got bigger.
Trophy case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
ALL-ACC · 2ND TEAM
All-ACC 2nd team (2023)
Weekly recognition
11 weekly honors (2022)
13 career weekly honors across 2 seasons — a 4+ season has tracked to All-Conference ~83% of the time
Coaching lineage · 2021–2023
1 coachPlayed every college season under Mack Brown.
Next stop · NFL
New England PatriotsEntering 3rd NFL season
New England PatriotsEntering 3rd NFL season
