In the second half, Maye completed all eight of his passes for 114 yards and three touchdowns with no interceptions for a 158.3 passer rating. For the game, he was 18 of 24 (75%) for 282 yards, three TDs and an INT for a 135.8 passer rating.
The second-year QB has been efficient, extremely accurate and bursting into big plays. His third-quarter 39-yard touchdown pass to Kayshon Boutte was graphic. Maye could not have walked off the pitch and given the ball away for a free throw.
“I mean, you guys see what I see,” Boutte said of Maye’s MVP bid. “We all see it. If you look around the league at the other guys too. I mean, they’re doing great things too.
“But I mean, I think Drake is doing everything they’re doing. [There’s] not [anything] which he is not doing. I think at the end of the day we’re just playing football. We had fun with it too. Just supporting my boys.”
Maye has 200-plus passing yards and 100-plus rushing yards in seven straight games, tied for the longest such streak in NFL history by a QB 23 or younger (Patrick Mahomes in 2018; Dan Marino is third with six in 1984). Every QB with such a streak of seven-plus games in a season won the MVP award, according to NFL Research: