Is Drake Maye playing this week?
No injury designationOfficial practice report (week 4): Full practice, shoulder injury.
Drake Maye has no injury designation on the latest injury reports for the week 4 game at the Buffalo Bills.
Kickoff: Sun, Oct 4 · 1:00 PM ET.
Checked Oct 3, 7:21 PM ET against the ESPN injury report and the NFL's official weekly report (via nflverse). Injury news can change up to kickoff, so confirm with the team close to game time.
From the beat
What reporters are saying about him, last 3 days.
CB Channing Canada (hamstring), LB Christian Elliss (chest), FB Reggie Gilliam (knee), OLB Dre'Mont Jones (shoulder), OT Morgan Moses (foot), TE Eli Raridon (thigh) and S Craig Woodson (shoulder) are all listed as questionable. QB Drake Maye (right shoulder) - no game status.
Mike Reiss @MikeReiss · 1d ago · View on X
Question: Drake Maye ended up on the injury report yesterday. Has that affected your ability to practice or calling plays? OC Josh McDaniels: “It has not … business as usual for us.”
Mike Reiss @MikeReiss · 2d ago · View on X
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Fantasy football · Week 4
Our own start/sit calls for every player, with a projected score, the range of likely outcomes and the reasons spelled out. Built from usage, matchup, Vegas lines and injuries. How we rank
Bench. Scored 3.8 points last game against a typical 18.5 (trending down).
Why we say bench
- Projected 12.7 points, #20 among QBs this week, 3.3 points behind #12, the last one we'd start.
- Scored 3.8 points last game against a typical 18.5 (trending down).
- Averaging 27 pass attempts a game.
Recent form
Dashed line: the usual 18.5 a game
This week's matchup
- Expected team score
- ~21 pts
- Vegas line
- NE underdogs by 7
- Game total
- 49.5
- BUF vs QBs
- 10% fewer points
All week 4 quarterback rankings →Start or sit tool →How our past calls did →
Age
24
Height
6'4"
Weight
225 lb
College
North Carolina
Experience
2 seasons
Draft
2024 · Pick #3 (NE)
Status
ACT
Grade Breakdown
What do these mean?Why 35.2?
The grade is low mainly because his offense lost expected points on the average dropback, 25th of 27 QBs even after crediting him for tougher-than-average defenses. The sample is small, just 89 dropbacks over 3 games. Big plays against Pittsburgh and Jacksonville weren't enough to offset costly turnovers.
Holding it back
- EPA per dropback was -0.246 expected points per play, 25th of 27 QBs.
- Week 3 at Jacksonville: pass intended for Williams was intercepted, costing 7.1 expected points.
- Week 3 at Jacksonville: sacked and fumbled, recovered by Hamilton, costing 5.8 expected points.
Written by StatGrades AI from this season's play-by-play through week 4. It explains what happened; a grade isn't a forecast (what grades do and don't predict).
EPA / play
-0.270
Success rate
43%
WPA (sum)
-0.71
Opponent adj.
0.024
Plays graded
89
Advanced stats
2026 season through Week 3 · tracking data from NFL Next Gen Stats| Week | Time to throw | Aggressiveness | CPOE |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2.82s | 6.1% | +3.2% |
| 2 | 2.94s | 9.1% | +3.2% |
| 3 | 3.42s | 20.0% | +0.6% |
What do these mean?
- Time to throw:
- Average seconds from snap to release.
- Aggressiveness:
- Share of throws into tight coverage, with a defender within one yard of the receiver.
- CPOE:
- Completion percentage over expected. Compares actual completions to what the difficulty of each throw predicts.
- Expected comp %:
- The completion percentage the throws would be expected to produce.
- Completed air yds:
- Average distance the ball travels in the air on completions.
- Intended air yds:
- Average distance the ball travels in the air on all attempts.
- Air yds differential:
- Completed air yards minus intended air yards. Negative means completions come shorter than the throws attempted.
- Air yds to sticks:
- How far the average throw travels past (or short of) the first-down marker.
Next Gen Stats data via nflverse (CC BY 4.0). Updated after games are final, not live, and covers QB, RB, WR and TE.