New England Patriots links 6/03/25 - OTA roundup: Drake Maye, offense rebound; More!

Daily news and links for Tuesday.

TEAM TALK

• Evan Lazar highlights Josh McDaniels discussing the progress of the offense and more takeaways from Monday’s practice. Rookies making progress: Pats assistants discuss growth of first-year players; More.
• Mike Dussault’s Patriots OTA Notebook: Andrews’ impact lingers, Stevenson locked in, Farmer and Woodson learning fast; More.
• Press Conferences: Josh McDaniels (11 min. video) - Offensive coaches: Ashton Grant, Doug Marrone, Thomas Brown, Tony Dews, and Todd Downing (18 min. video) - ILB coach Zak Kuhr (8 min. video) - Mike Onwenu, Brenden Schooler, Cole Strange, Rhamondre Stevenson. (20 min. video)
• Photos: Patriots OTAs.
• Press Conference: David Andrews retirement speech, with special congratulations messages. (41 min video)
• Highlights: David Andrews’ former teammates offer congratulations on his retirement. (9 min. video)
• Photos: Two-time Super Bowl Champion David Andrews retries.

LOCAL LINKS

• Alex Barth’s OTA Notebook: Diggs returns, Maye’s best day of the spring, Busy day for UDFA wide receiver Efton Chism; Who’s next at left guard? Mapu at linebacker; More.
• Mark Daniels gives us seven takeaways from OTAs: Drake Maye catches fire; Jahlani Tavai suffers injury; Rhamondre Stevenson makes the play of the day; Attendance; More.
• Tom E. Curran and Phil Perry’s share their OTA takeaways: Diggs returns, offense bounces back.
• Andrew Callahan’s Patriots OTAs takeaways: Drake Maye rises, Stefon Diggs returns, rookie WR shines; More.
• Karen Guregian highlights QB coach Ashton Grant detailing how Drake Maye is handling the ups and downs of learning the new system.
• Doug Kyed explains how the structure of Mike Vrabel’s practices has been benefitting top pick Will Campbell.
• Doug Kyed points to how the Patriots’ defense, plus Mike Vrabel’s coaching is benefitting Will Campbell.
• Karen Guregian hears from Rhamondre Stevenson detailing how Mike Vrabel and coaches helped him through difficult time.
• Karen Guregian looks at whether Stefon Diggs’ return means he’s out of Mike Vrabel’s dog house.
• Lauren Campbell relays Ian Rapoport saying the Patriots have zero plans to release Stefon Diggs and that “they intend to play him a lot of money.”
• Tom E. Curran says there seems to be ‘no tangible fallout’ expected from Diggs’ situation.
• Mike Reiss reports longtime Patriots center David Andrews said Monday that he retired from the NFL after 10 seasons because he wanted to play for only one team.
• Matt Vautour has the story of how David Andrews, the undrafted kid from Georgia, turned out to be the perfect New England football player.
• Chris Mason notes Bill Belichick got a special shout out in David Andrews’ retirement speech.
• Luke Graham tells us which Patriots UDFAs got the biggest contracts.
• Nick O’Malley mentions how a Science YouTuber asked Tom Brady to throw at his head, to help him collect data on the unique physics of throwing a football.
• Pats Chat podcast: Phil Perry and Michael Hurley say Drake Maye improves in latest OTA; Trying not to overreact to...