Drake Maye’s performance in his first game as starting quarterback for the North Carolina Tar Heels was an impressive one. He set a new program record for most touchdown passes thrown in a debut game and led UNC to a win over FAMU.
While it wasn’t top D-1 talent, there was some promise in Maye’s game and some across the country are starting to see that. Already Maye has earned recognition from Athlon Sports and 247Sports earlier this week but longtime ACC writer Brett Friedlander believes Maye is good enough to impact the always wacky ACC Coastal Division.
In his piece for Saturday Road, Friedlander writes on Maye’s play in the first half where he scrambles and takes off for a run. Maye was flipped upside down on the play, much to the dismay of head coach Mack Brown. But it could be a sign of things to come according to Friedlander:
He failed to stick the landing and found himself laying upside down on the turf, a posture that is somehow appropriate. Because if he continues to put up numbers even close to the kind he did against FAMU on Saturday, the latest Maye to wear Carolina blue could potentially turn the ACC’s Coastal Division race completely upside down.
It’s only one game and the rest of the ACC begins action this weekend with UNC taking on a tough App. State team on the road. But if Maye is really good and can lead this offense, then why not?
Stay tuned.
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