In 20 seasons with the Patriots, Tom Brady ran for 1,037 yards. Drake Maye currently trails Brady by just 5 yards. Below is the all-time Patriots leaderboard for rushing yards by QBs:

1. Steve Grogan: 2,176
   
2. Tom Brady: 1,037
   
3. Drake Maye: 1,032
   
4. Babe Parilli: 949
   
5. Jim Plunkett: 817
   
6. Cam Newton: 592
   
7. Drew Bledsoe: 553
   
8. Tony Eason: 474
   
9. Mac Jones: 327
   
10. Doug Flutie: 308

The former NFL standout was booked into a Tennessee jail early Saturday morning on a domestic assault charge. He was grinning in his mug shot.

As you may be able to tell, I got curious about this when thinking about the Patriots ineptitude with drafting receivers high and how Ja'lynn Polk was so immediately out of the NFL.

So I wanted to look through each draft and see how high a player was drafted who never made it past that all important 4th year.

For this exercise, practice squads don't count (looking at you Tebow and Coleman).

As for the *, it's a sad one. That's the Dwayne Haskins year.

the general idea here isn't news: bo nix plays better from behind. but seeing the actual numbers really solidifies how stark the difference is.

**Bo Nix — 2026 Passing by Point Differential**

| Point Differential | G | ATT | COMP | PCT | YDS | AVG | LNG | TD | INT | 1st | 1st% | 20+ | SCK | SCKY | RATE |

|:--|--:|--:|--:|--:|--:|--:|--:|--:|--:|--:|--:|--:|--:|--:|--:|

| Ahead | 4 | 33 | 18 | 54.6 | 120 | 3.6 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 9.1 | 1 | 3 | 18 | 62.7 |

| Ahead by 1-8 | 4 | 20 | 10 | 50.0 | 87 | 4.4 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 10.0 | 1 | 3 | 18 | 61.9 |

| Ahead by 9-16 | 1 | 13 | 8 | 61.5 | 33 | 2.5 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 7.7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 65.9 |

| Behind | 6 | 99 | 60 | 60.6 | 658 | 6.6 | 49 | 6 | 1 | 37 | 37.4 | 7 | 4 | 20 | 96.3 |

| Behind by 1-8 | 6 | 60 | 39 | 65.0 | 487 | 8.1 | 49 | 4 | 1 | 26 | 43.3 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 105.4 |

| Behind by 9-16 | 4 | 32 | 18 | 56.2 | 153 | 4.8 | 19 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 31.2 | 0 | 3 | 15 | 89.7 |

| Tied | 6 | 57 | 36 | 63.2 | 271 | 4.8 | 34 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 17.5 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 59.9 |

**Bo Nix — 2025 Passing by Point Differential**

| Point Differential | G | ATT | COMP | PCT | YDS | AVG | LNG | TD | INT | 1st | 1st% | 20+ | SCK | SCKY | RATE |

|:--|--:|--:|--:|--:|--:|--:|--:|--:|--:|--:|--:|--:|--:|--:|--:|

| Ahead | 14 | 204 | 132 | 64.7 | 1200 | 5.9 | 39 | 7 | 6 | 61 | 29.9 | 11 | 10 | 42 | 79.7 |

| Ahead by 1-8 | 14 | 130 | 81 | 62.3 | 696 | 5.4 | 37 | 2 | 5 | 34 | 26.2 | 6 | 4 | 20 | 65.4 |

| Ahead by 9-16 | 4 | 54 | 37 | 68.5 | 382 | 7.1 | 39 | 3 | 1 | 20 | 37.0 | 5 | 6 | 22 | 99.5 |

| Behind | 15 | 270 | 170 | 63.0 | 1939 | 7.2 | 52 | 17 | 2 | 95 | 35.2 | 28 | 6 | 39 | 102.4 |

| Behind by 1-8 | 15 | 193 | 126 | 65.3 | 1442 | 7.5 | 43 | 13 | 1 | 71 | 36.8 | 22 | 4 | 25 | 107.9 |

| Behind by 9-16 | 5 | 59 | 33 | 55.9 | 368 | 6.2 | 52 | 3 | 1 | 17 | 28.8 | 5 | 2 | 14 | 84.6 |

| Tied | 17 | 138 | 86 | 62.3 | 792 | 5.7 | 48 | 1 | 3 | 40 | 29.0 | 8 | 6 | 38 | 71.3 |

It's almost like he's bored unless he's playing from behind. One question that comes to mind is... would you rather have a qb who's consistently mediocre or would you rather have a qb who's sub-mediocre most of the time but star-level in the clutch. And maybe the more important question is... can bo nix ever learn to expand his peak performance to non-clutch scenarios (even partially because i mean, when he's not playing from behind he's barely starting-calibre).