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Drake Maye Took a Minute to Help Some Fans With Their Fantasy Football Draft

Congrats to Anees on landing the first pick in fantasy this year, courtesy of Drake Maye.
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Drake Maye better be the first quarterback off the board in this league.
Drake Maye better be the first quarterback off the board in this league. | endzoneempire8 / TikTok

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Across the country, football fans are preparing for their fantasy football drafts ahead of the start of the 2025 NFL season.

Many of these fantasy football players are well-adjusted people who enjoy the game as a way to stay engaged with action all across the league. And then there’s the rest of us.

On Thursday, Patriots quarterback Drake Maye helped out some fans that appear to belong to this latter group. After they showed up to Patriots practice with a sign featuring the names of the 10 competitors in their fantasy league, they asked Maye to randomize the order of their upcoming draft.

Maye obliged.

Maye currently has an average draft position of 139.8 in ESPN leagues—the 17th quarterback off the board. Chances are he’ll be going a little higher in this particular league.

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TYLER LAULETTA

Tyler Lauletta is a staff writer for the Breaking and Trending News Team/team at Sports Illustrated. Before joining SI, he covered sports for nearly a decade at Business Insider, and helped design and launch the OffBall newsletter. He is a graduate of Temple University in Philadelphia, and remains an Eagles and Phillies sicko. When not watching or blogging about sports, Tyler can be found scratching his dog behind the ears.

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