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Obituaries Purchasing UPPER CAROLINA When Drake Maye of UNC enters the 2024 NFL Combine, where does one former Panthers scout rank him? AUTHOR MIKE KAYE 7:00 AM FEBRUARY 20, 2024 Drake Maye, the quarterback for the North Carolina Tar Heels, is anticipated to be chosen relatively early in the 2024 NFL Draft in April. But there has been much discussion among pundits regarding his precise ranking among the top 10. Bucky Brooks, a longtime scout for the Carolina Panthers, is another analyst who has pegged Maye as one of the best three players at his position. Although Maye, a Myers Park High School graduate and resident of Charlotte, has been a well-liked

Maye is ranked third among the top five quarterback prospects in the 2024 class by NFL.com, behind LSU’s Jayden Daniels and University of Southern California’s Caleb Williams. In his analysis, Brooks stated that although Maye is coming off a difficult last campaign in Chapel Hill, scouting circles are paying close attention to him because of his tremendous arm talent and prototypical measurements.

Williams “has All-Pro-caliber talent,” according to Brooks, who is currently an NFL Media draft analyst, while Daniels “dazzles on the perimeter as a dual-threat quarterback with elite talents as a runner and passer.” Even though Maye is ranked lower by Brooks than Williams and Daniels, he is still higher than Michael Penix Jr. of the University of Washington and J.J. McCarthy of the University of Michigan.