Just a day after the New England Patriots finished off a hard-fought 10-7 victory over the Denver Broncos in the AFC Championship game Sunday, earning their first trip to the Super Bowl since the 2018 season, New England was stunned by a report from a popular online sports medicine doctor claiming that Maye suffered a shoulder injury in the game.
The report flooded not only social media but the local New England media and national media for the next full day. Maye himself was asked to confirm or deny that he suffered a shoulder injury by Boston radio hosts in a Tuesday interview.
The 23-year-old quarterback did neither, saying only, âIâm feeling good. Iâm feeling good.â
Media commentators and most online fans appeared dismissive of the report from Dr. David Chao, who has built a business for himself by commenting on and analyzing NFL injuries for an audience largely of fans interested in fantasy football and betting on games, as well as the merely curious.
Now it appears that Chao was right, at least in his general assessment that Maye was suffering from an injury to his throwing shoulder. The Patriots themselves essentially confirmed the report when they issued a projected team injury report Wednesday, the day before the teamâs first practice of the two weeks leading up to the Feb. 8 Super Bowl.
The report listed Mayeâs participation in practice as âlimited,â with the cause given as âright shoulder.â
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