Joe Milton Has Social Media Raving After First Preseason Game for New England Patriots

Brooks Austin | Aug 9, 2024

August 8, 2024; Foxborough, MA, USA; New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft talks to quarterback Joe Milton III (19) before a game against the Carolina Panthers at Gillette Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Eric Canha-USA TODAY Sports / Eric Canha-USA TODAY Sports

Tennessee Volunteers fans are not foreign to false hope with regards to former quarterback Joe Milton. He's always been so immensely talented, that just seeing the flashes of what his tools could ultimatley be has fanbases up in arms every time.

Thursday night was Milton's first preseason football game for the New England Patriots who drafted him in the sixth round and despite the fact that they spent a first round selection on Drake May, there are still people swooning over Milton. Especially after the performance he put on Thursday night. Milton was 4/6 for 54 yards and a TD, his first of his NFL Career. Though it was the way he made those plays that had social media buzzing.

Joe Milton with the 🚀🎯 for the @patriots TD!

📺: #CARvsNE on @nflnetwork
📱: Stream on #NFLPlus pic.twitter.com/VtHbpnA0ri

— NFL (@NFL) August 9, 2024

Some Pats fans even went as far as to say they "wasted" the selection on Drake Maye.

We really wasted a first on Drake Maye. Joe Milton is going to be SPECIAL ⭐️. #Patriots pic.twitter.com/EFmdJhPgSU

— InsideThe617 (@InsideThe617) August 9, 2024

And so it begins. Remember where you were when Joe Milton III’s legend was born pic.twitter.com/aYz3rfwJ5K

— Jerry Thornton (@jerrythornton1) August 9, 2024

Milton already had the hot takes rolling in from national opinion espousers like Colin Cowherd even before this preseason contest.

"The sixth-round quarterback Joe Milton is probably going to win the job because he's the better athlete, he's the bigger, stronger, faster more dynamic athlete," Colin Cowherd said on The Herd. "And they don't have any at tight end, wide receiver or running back. So when I read this story, my take is, yeah Joe Milton will make plays. Listen, Kirk Cousins and RGIII got drafted back in 2012 got drafted by Washington. And they figured out by year two that Cousins is the guy."

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