Drake Maye 2025 Season in Review

Drake Maye finished 2025 as the number 2 quarterback in total PPR scoring and number 2 in PPR per game. That's not a sophomore leap — that's a full-blown ascension. Maye quarterbacked the Patriots to a 14-3 record, an AFC East title, and a Super Bowl appearance as the engine of the number 1 passing offense in football by expected points added. He was efficient. He was steady. He ran enough to give you a fantasy floor on the rare days the passing game stalled, and he played all 17 games. For a player coming off a rookie year where the questions were about supporting cast and protection, Maye answered every one of them on the field.

Now let's dig into the numbers, because the story is efficiency on real volume. Maye completed 72 percent of his throws on 492 attempts for 4,394 yards, 31 touchdowns, and just 8 picks — and his completion percentage above expectation of plus 9.1 led every qualified passer in the league. His adjusted net yards per attempt of 8.3 also ranked first among qualified starters, and his 31 passing touchdowns were third-most in the NFL. Add 450 rushing yards and 4 scores on 103 carries — roughly 26 rushing yards a game baked into the floor. And the floor was real: Maye averaged 20.7 PPR per game and only dipped below 15 once all year, in that Week 5 Buffalo win where he threw for 273 yards but didn't find the end zone. The ceiling games came in bunches too — 32.4 in the Week 17 Jets game on five passing touchdowns, plus 26-plus performances against Miami, New Orleans, and Cleveland. Steady-floor quarterbacking with genuine spike weeks, not a boom-or-bust roller coaster.

One play captured the season. Second quarter at Tampa Bay in Week 10, first and ten from the Patriots' own 28, down 7-nothing. Maye took the snap, dropped, and hit Javon Williams on a short right throw that turned into a 72-yard touchdown — worth plus 5.7 expected points added on a single snap. That's the Maye season in miniature: a clean throw, a designed concept that broke the game open, and an offense that turned average field position into seven points before the defense could blink. The number 2 fantasy quarterback finish wasn't a fluke of garbage time or a single hot month — it was 17 weeks of one of the most efficient passing seasons in football.