Impact Veteran signal caller Jacoby Brissett, who led the team to a Week 1 win over the Bengals, remains the Patriots' starter at this stage, but Mayo acknowledged that Maye -- the No. 3 overall pick in the 2024 NFL Draft - is seeing more first-team reps than a typical backup would, with an eye toward preparing him for an eventual ascent to the top of the depth chart down the road. "Normally, it's the starter gets let's say 95 percent of the reps, and the backup doesn't," Mayo relayed Friday. "With this a little bit different. And we had a conversation. How do we, I guess the struggle is, how do you get your starting quarterback prepared for the game and also continue to develop the guy in the background, which is Drake. And so it is like a 70/30 split."
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