#10

Drake Maye

Former quarterback at North Carolina. 2023: 3,608 passing yards, 24 TD, 9 INT.

QB · North Carolina · So. · #10

6′4″ · 230 lb · Charlotte, NC

CFB Index 80 · #10 of 140 QBsHigh confidenceAll-ConferenceNew England — drafted 2024, Rd 1, Pick 3, #3 overall

Recruiting

4★

QB recruit

No. 56 nationally · Signed with North Carolina

No college snaps yet.

His career numbers, season by season

The story

Former quarterback at North Carolina. 2023: 3,608 passing yards, 24 TD, 9 INT.

Signed as a 4-star recruit to North Carolina in 2021.
Drafted round 1 by the New England in 2024.

His career, year by year

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 New England.

His career

He arrived as a blue-chip recruit and played like one.

2021

Signed with North Carolina4-star out of Myers Park

202214 games

The role got bigger.

All-ACCfirst

202312 games

All-ACCsecond

2024

Drafted by New Englandround 1, pick 3

Career arc

Recruit

★★★★

#56 national

CFB

College

North Carolina

2021–2023

NFL

NFL Draft

R1 · #3

New England · 2024

Trophy case · Confirmed honors

What the selectors said

16 honors · 1 category

🎖

ALL-ACC · 2ND TEAM

All-ACC 2nd team (2023)

Coaching lineage · 2021–2023

1 coach

2021–2023

Mack Brown

North Carolina

Played his entire career under Mack Brown.

Where He Ended Up · NFL

New EnglandEntering 3rd NFL season

#3Rd 1 · Pick 3

New EnglandEntering 3rd NFL season

View college career stats ↓

2023 snapshot

Season context · Team result + system

3 seasons under Mack Brown — 23-17 over that span.

2021North Carolina6-7HC: Mack Brown · Run-leaning

2022North Carolina9-5HC: Mack Brown · Balanced

2023North Carolina8-5HC: Mack Brown · Balanced

Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort

Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles

80All-Conference level #10 of 140?

High confidence13 metrics · season cumulative

Elite: pass yards (94th percentile). Strength: rush tds (92nd percentile). Concern: interception rate (17th percentile).

Real play-by-play efficiency

Success rate#49 / 177 · 72nd pct

45.0%

EPA / dropback#61 / 177 · 66th pct

0.33

Explosive rate#84 / 177 · 53rd pct

10.7%

Sack rate#91 / 177 · 49th pct

6.2%

Interception rate#148 / 177 · 17th pct

1.2%

Box-score rates (8)

Pass yards#12 / 179 · 94th pct

3608

Rush TDs#13 / 179 · 92nd pct

Rush yards#25 / 179 · 86th pct

449

Pass TDs#24 / 179 · 85th pct

Yards / att#31 / 179 · 82nd pct

8.5

Completion %#61 / 179 · 66th pct

63.3%

Fumbles lost#76 / 167 · 40th pct

Interceptions#133 / 179 · 22nd pct

Season trend

Last seasonThis season

EPA / dropback

85th → 66th percentile

Success rate

84th → 72nd percentile

Explosive rate

70th → 53rd percentile

Sack rate

31st → 49th percentile

Interception rate

84th → 17th percentile

Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season. Most bars are box-score rates; EPA / success-rate bars are computed from real play-by-play (offense only — no defensive EPA model exists yet).

Passing profile

Pass Profile · Completions by yards gained (PBP)

Adjusted ANY/A, sack rate, and where the yards came from

263/412 (63.8%) · 24 TD · 9 INT

412 of 425 attempts matched to play-by-play

Adjusted ANY/A

7.9047 of 212 QBs

Sack rate

6.0%116 of 212 QBs

Sacked 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 yds

52%of completions

138 comp5.0 yds avg2 TD

Middle

10–19 yds

31%of completions

81 comp14.3 yds avg7 TD

Deep

20+ yds

17%of completions

44 comp35.0 yds avg10 TD

Overall 63.8% completion on 412 attempts · 44 deep completions averaging 35.0 yds.

Situational

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.

BaselineThis situation

Down 1

-24 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 9/174 (5.2%) · league sack rate 4.9% · ~our read

Down 2

+7 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 8/142 (5.6%) · league sack rate 5.2% · ~our read

Down 3+

+34 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 8/91 (8.8%) · league sack rate 9.1% · ~our read

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.

Splits & context

Splits · Per-game

2023 season · 12 games

Home/Road · Season halves

Home vs Road

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Home8g	317	2.2	8.7	0.8
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

2026 season

Head Coach

Bill Belichick

Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.

Awards

Player standing · 2023

All-Conference

Picked for an all-conference team by at least one selector.

our read the All-Conference honor is earned — and the box score backs it up emphatically: #10 of 140 FBS quarterbacks by CFB Index Score.2023 profile

Recognition

Roster2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Production · CFB Index Score

80 · #10 of 140 QBs

Former four-star. Now #10 at the position.

Career stats

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	--
2022	North Carolina	184	699	3.8	7	--
2021	North Carolina	6	62	10.3	0	--
Career		302	1,210	4.0	16	--

Signature game

SIGNATURE GAME · 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 · T. Maginness — 38 AVG · 2 IN 20 · 50 LONG

Signature plays

Signature plays · top plays by |EPA|

The plays that mattered most

fact

Week 1 · South Carolina · 2&10 · Q3 · EPA +7.00Drake Maye pass complete to John Copenhaver for 18 yds for a TD (Ryan Coe KICK)
Week 6 · Syracuse · 3&4 · Q3 · EPA +6.90Kobe Paysour 77 Yd pass from Drake Maye (Noah Burnette Kick)
Week 3 · Minnesota · 3&12 · Q1 · EPA +5.86Drake Maye pass complete to Nate McCollum for 46 yds for a TD (Noah Burnette KICK)
Week 7 · Miami · 3&20 · Q3 · EPA +5.55Devontez Walker 33 Yd pass from Drake Maye (Noah Burnette Kick)
Week 1 · South Carolina · 2&4 · Q2 · EPA +5.50Drake Maye pass complete to Kobe Paysour for 34 yds for a TD (Ryan Coe KICK)
Week 7 · Miami · 2&9 · Q3 · EPA +5.39Devontez Walker 56 Yd pass from Drake Maye (Noah Burnette Kick)
Week 8 · Virginia · 2&5 · Q2 · EPA +5.32Drake Maye pass complete to Bryson Nesbit for 62 yds for a TD (Noah Burnette KICK)
Week 3 · Minnesota · 3&5 · Q2 · EPA +4.96Drake Maye pass complete to Kamari Morales for 55 yds to the MINN 1 for a 1ST down
Week 12 · Clemson · 4&6 · Q1 · EPA +4.82Drake Maye pass complete to Devontez Walker for 43 yds to the CLEM 2 for a 1ST down
Week 9 · Georgia Tech · 3&18 · Q3 · EPA +4.09Drake Maye pass complete to Omarion Hampton for 29 yds to the GT 38 for a 1ST down

Game log

Game log · Week-by-week

2023 season · 12 games

Box score · CFBD

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 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	8.7	77.5

How he plays

Play style

Dangerous with both arm and legs — defenses can't just pin the ears back.

CFB Index positional classification

Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long

Where the completions actually land

fact

58.1%Completion %

26.0%Conversion/dropback

48.0%Land short of sticks

0INTs

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. ~ our read: checkdown by design

Short-yardage / goal-line · enumeration

Who gets the tough yard

fact

9/29Inside-5 share

9 of the team's 29 inside-the-5 carries (31.0%).