The New England Patriots are giving stressed fans an update after quarterback Drake Maye sustained an injury during the team’s Sunday, November 15, football game against the Detroit Lions.
Maye, 24, was sacked by Lions defensive end Aidan Hutchinson during their respective teams’ Munich showdown, seemingly hurting his ankle. Hutchinson, 26, suffered a knee injury while celebrating the sack and left the game.
As for Maye, the Patriots initially ruled the quarterback “questionable” to return to the field before ultimately deciding he would sit out for the remainder of the game.
Neither Drake nor his wife, Ann Michael Maye, have further addressed his injury. Ann Michael, 23, even jetted overseas to cheer on her spouse.
“Go Pats!” she wrote via Instagram on Sunday ahead of the football game, in which she bundled up on the sidelines in a camel-colored coat with a fur stole.
Ann Michael has been a staple at Drake’s Patriots games ever since he was drafted in 2024. (Drake and Ann Michael have been together since middle school, ultimately saying “I do” in 2025.)
“We have great teammates and great friends here that have really made the New England area feel like home, which is great,” Ann Michael exclusively told Us in August of relocating to the northeast with Drake. “[Making friends] just makes it feel so much more like home and makes it feel less like we’re so far away from our families and stuff.”
She added, “It’s made it so fun and it’s really cool that he is obviously friends with all of his teammates, and I’ve become friends with the wives. It’s one big community where we can all spend time together.”
Drake has also been candid about the couple’s major adjustment moving to the Boston area.
“It’s been awesome to follow her journey. I know [I] was looking forward to her getting up here,” he said in a January press conference. “After we got married, she came up here and had never lived up north. [She] had never seen this much snow on the ground, so obviously it was an adjustment for her.”
Even so, Drake noted how Ann Michael has found her strides in New England and as a football wife.
“She’s loved it, she’s loved the people up here, living up here [and] she loves the support,” he gushed at the time. “She’s got her own little journey that’s been awesome, being herself and that’s the best thing about her and what I love her for.”
Ann Michael has since found success as a content creator, often going viral for her baking and needlepoint vlogs.
