FOXBOROUGH –  A week ago Friday, Drake Maye got all the attention when he showed up at the wild CM-Xaverian game.

But, he wasn’t the only Patriots player in attendance.

Morgan Moses, Demario ‘Pop’ Douglas and Kyle Williams were all there as well. Somehow – despite being a mountain of a man – Moses blended in with the crowd, sitting in the stands, enjoying the show like everyone else. As smaller guys by NFL standards, Douglas and Williams had a much easier time blending in considering the amount of people that were there.

I spoke with all three this week to get their thoughts on the Massachusetts high school experience.

“Any time…I think I told one of the guys ‘there’s nothing like Friday night lights.’ Being able to be out there and see like, the love of the game, where it starts, that’s always a good time,” said Moses.

Asked if anybody asked him for any autographs or selfies, Moses smiled and shook his head.

“No man, I was chillin. I was incognito man,” he said laughing. “I blend in. I’m a man of the people, bro. It was a packed house, obviously. It was a Friday night and when you get two good teams that have fun out there playing, it’s a good thing to see. Just being able to see some good football was good. It was just kind of spur of the moment. Like, obviously football is football.

“You enjoy it and just being able to see the guys and see some guys that are trying to make it to our level, is great.”

Douglas and Williams were quite enthusiastic in their responses.

“It was good, man. Mass isn’t like Florida, but I was standing up out my seat during that game,” said Douglas. “It was a good game. Since I’ve been here and gone to a couple games, yeah, that’s the best I’ve seen.”

When asked to compare it to Florida ball – which of course is an entirely different world – Douglas laughed and wouldn’t go there.

“I ain’t even gonna do that,” he said. “I can’t do that because this is where I live now. I love my people here, but it’s not like Florida ball. I can’t do Massachusetts like that, I can’t do my guys like that…it was packed. The game was packed, that’s what was exciting about it, man. The support the city had for them was good.”

I quickly asked Stefon Diggs who has the next locker over from Douglas if we’d ever see him at a high school game.

“I don’t leave the house,” he said.

This was Williams’ first taste of high school football around here. 

“It was dope. It got me out my seat,” he said emphatically. “Like, not too much football gets me outta my seat. It went down to the last minute. Any game that goes down to the last minute, that’s a great game. It was dope. It was packed around…like, you see kids standing around outside the field, then you have the student section. It was actually dope that you see the visiting team bring their student section. You don’t see that too much in California. 

“That was great. They have great school spirit. Football (in California) is big, but you have so many schools, everybody’s going to different games and all that. It’s like, if you go to a private school in Cali…you’ll get student sections. If not, you won’t get student sections.”

Asked why he and the other guys didn’t join Maye down on the field, Williams had a simple answer.

“I don’t got that much hype to my name,” he said smiling. “I like to stay lowkey.”

With the MIAA Super Bowls once again at Gillette in December, most teams lucky enough to still be playing will almost certainly have a bigger audience of current Patriots players watching them chase a ring.