Like millions of people I am also a fan of the infamous John Madden Football and most of the time I will get every year’s release. One of my favorite parts is to see player ratings for the year and how your team is perceived by the national stage. There are several good shows on how “experts” come up with the ratings and players even politic for their own score as a sense of pride and smack talk with teammates and rivals. I thought that it would be fun to assign a post-season Madden score (OVR) to each starter based on how they performed this season matched with the overall understanding of how Madden players rate. How close I get to the 2020 score who knows.
Offense: Andy Dalton (74), Joe Mixon (91), Gio Bernard (82), AJ Green (84), Tyler Boyd (82), John Ross III (70), Alex Erickson (72), Tyler Eifert (77), C.J. Ozomah (71), Cordy Glenn (74), Fred Johnson (70), Bobby Hart (64), John Jerry (69), Michael Jordan (71), Billy Price (70), Trey Hopkins (78), John Miller (72).
Defense: Carlos Dunlap (92), Sam Hubbard (91), Carl Lawson (84), Geno Atkins (91), Andrew Billings (71), Josh Tupou (73), Nick Vigil (78), Germaine Pratt (74), Jordan Evans (68), Hardy Nickerson (65), Darqueze Dennard (79), Dre Kirkpatrick (74), William Jackson III (80), B.W. Webb (67), Darius Phillips (77), Shawn Williams (74), Jesse Bates III (77), Clayton Fejedelem (73).
Special Teams: Kevin Huber (84), Clark Harris (80), Randy Bullock (86)