{"id":78232,"date":"2025-08-15T09:35:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T09:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=78232"},"modified":"2025-08-15T09:35:24","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T09:35:24","slug":"drake-maye-has-1-strong-word-for-patriots-will-campbell-hes-a-game-changer-the-north-carolina-quarterback-didnt-hold-back-when-asked-about-his-teammate-giving-a-glowing-endorsement-that-h","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=78232","title":{"rendered":"Drake Maye Has 1 Strong Word for Patriots&#8217; Will Campbell: &#8216;He&#8217;s a Game-Changer!&#8217; The North Carolina quarterback didn&#8217;t hold back when asked about his teammate, giving a glowing endorsement that has fans buzzing with excitement."},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-featured-container-id\">\n<div id=\"post-featured\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GettyImages-2226761425_22d8bc-e1755190530640.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 95vw, 780px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GettyImages-2226761425_22d8bc-e1755190530640.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780 780w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GettyImages-2226761425_22d8bc-e1755190530640.jpg?quality=15&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1100 1100w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GettyImages-2226761425_22d8bc-e1755190530640.jpg?quality=35&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1350 1350w\" alt=\"Drake Maye Has 1 Strong Word for Patriots' Will Campbell\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" \/><\/figure>\n<div>\n<p>Getty<\/p>\n<p>Patriots rookie Will Campbell<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>If second-year Patriots quarterback Drake Maye is right, then there will be some happy folks in New England. None, perhaps, happier than Maye himself.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s because, this week from joint practice in Minnesota, Maye was asked about the performance of rookie left tackle Will Campbell, the No. 4 overall pick from this year\u2019s draft.<\/p>\n<p>And his answer was encouraging. In fact, Maye labeled Campbell with one key word: \u201cBeast.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While the Patriots have a wide range of new faces in key positions, none is quite as new as the baby-faced Campbell, and no position is quite as important as the one he\u2019s being asked to play: left tackle, the protector of Maye\u2019s blind side.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Patriots Need a Stronger Offensive Line<\/h2>\n<p>New England had one of the worst offensive lines in the NFL in 2024, Maye\u2019s rookie season, and the team knows well that the key for a long, healthy future for Maye will be protecting him. The Patriots used five left tackles last season, and the one who got the most run\u2013Vederian Lowe\u2013was rated the 69th tackle out of 81 by Pro Football Focus.<\/p>\n<p>But Maye said he has been impressed with what he\u2019s seen from Campbell\u2013and he said he\u2019s been ready with advice along the way.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s a beast,\u201d Maye said. \u201cYou see a different energy out there in joint practices and games. I think I just challenge him to bring it every day. When we\u2019re facing our defense, there\u2019s no days off in this league. You win a game, you lose a game, you\u2019re right back in practice on Monday or practice on Wednesday. You\u2019re back at it with a new team and a new edge rusher that\u2019s just as good as the one in the past.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that\u2019s what I learned last year. It\u2019s a new week, roll it over. Play a good game. You\u2019ve got to come back and do it again. If you don\u2019t have a good game, you get a chance to answer the next week.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Will Campbell \u2018Doing a Great Job\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>Campbell has had some ups and downs, and indeed, it sometimes appears that reports on his progress swing wildly each day\u2013he goes from pancaking foes in 1-on-1 drills one day to being flummoxed by stunts and other trickery the next.<\/p>\n<p>But defensive lineman K\u2019Lavon Chaisson clapped back at that notion in practice on Wednesday. He said the narrative around Campbell has been just plain wrong.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWill\u2019s been doing a great job, for sure. There\u2019s this weird note that\u2019s kind of going around about Will\u2019s kind of having like an up-and-down camp, but Will\u2019s doing a great job, man,\u201d Chaisson said, via the Boston Herald.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s tough when you get to go get somebody every single day, you know I\u2019m saying? So whether you kind of \u2014 you know their moves or not, but it\u2019s still somebody that\u2019s willing to go get you every single day and give you a battle. That\u2019s what we kind of need as a team. So we\u2019re making each other better, for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sean Deveney is a veteran sports reporter covering the NBA, NFL and MLB for Heavy.com. He has written for Heavy since 2019 and has more than two decades of experience covering the NBA, including 17 years as the lead NBA reporter for the Sporting News. Deveney is the author of 7 nonfiction books, including &#8220;Fun City,&#8221; &#8220;Before Wrigley became Wrigley,&#8221; and &#8220;Facing Michael Jordan.&#8221; More about Sean Deveney<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patriots quarterback Drake Maye summed up what he&#8217;s seen from No. 4 overall draft pick Will Campbell in one word.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":78233,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfl"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Drake Maye Has 1 Strong Word for Patriots&#039; Will Campbell: &#039;He&#039;s a Game-Changer!&#039; The North Carolina quarterback didn&#039;t hold back when asked about his teammate, giving a glowing endorsement that has fans buzzing with excitement. - NEWS USA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=78232\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Drake Maye Has 1 Strong Word for Patriots&#039; Will Campbell: &#039;He&#039;s a Game-Changer!&#039; The North Carolina quarterback didn&#039;t hold back when asked about his teammate, giving a glowing endorsement that has fans buzzing with excitement. - NEWS USA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Patriots quarterback Drake Maye summed up what he&#039;s seen from No. 4 overall draft pick Will Campbell in one word.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=78232\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"NEWS USA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-08-15T09:35:12+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-08-15T09:35:24+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Take-part-in-a-music-competition-held-by-the-Fauget-High-School-music-team.-Lets-register-now.-2-3.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1000\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1000\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"MrLuu\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"MrLuu\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=78232\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=78232\",\"name\":\"Drake Maye Has 1 Strong Word for Patriots' Will Campbell: 'He's a Game-Changer!' 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