FOXBORO — Patriots quarterback Drake Maye appears to have a new favorite red-zone target in top free-agent addition Stefon Diggs.
Diggs isn’t the biggest target at 6-feet, 191 pounds, but the wide receiver’s mentality gives Maye confidence to target the veteran wide receiver when things get tight near the end zone.
“I think it’s just mindset. It’s attacking the football,” Maye said Thursday. “You know, a guy like that, a guy of his stature who’s caught a lot of touchdowns in this league and made a lot of big plays, he wants to go get the football. He tells me all the time, just, ‘if the balls in the air, it’s gonna be mine.’ So I think that it’s comforting hearing that from those guys. And I think that’s kind of started to become something in the receiver room, that’s the mindset. The ball’s in the air, go get it. So I think it’s, it’s comfortable hearing that.”
Maye does have two big targets in tight ends Hunter Henry and Austin Hooper. Another bigger pass catcher, 6-foot-4, 221-pound wide receiver Mack Hollins, also returned to practice off of the PUP list on Thursday.
