There’s a video making the rounds purporting to show the player ratings for “Madden 19,” the latest installment in Electronic Arts’ long-running, immensely popular franchise. Whether the leaked ratings will stick when the game is released in August or not, they should still serve their most important purpose: making NFL players mad.
Players have long been upset by how the video game manufacturer grades them on their skills and athleticism — from T.J. Houshmandzadeh boycotting Madden in protest of his low rating, to Cam Newton confronting the person in charge of ratings over his speed score, to the letter someone wrote telling John Madden to “Rot in Hell” after the game gave Redskins long-snapper Ethan Albright a 53 rating.