Whether you think player ratings in Madden should matter to the actual players in the game, they do. Whether they let on about it or not, these ratings matter to them.
Some of the players are more vocal than others about it. And few players are as vocal about most things as Jack Jones is. The Raiders cornerback went in on Madden for some of their ratings this year.
He criticized the game for simply copying their ratings from previous years, playing favorites, and being all about which players are most popular rather than which players are most talented.
Copy and paste game.. they edit they favorite players.. it’s the same sht from last year… Madden about pub.. who in the limelight. Sht garbage.. if they not gone take the time to get everyone and everything right then they need to let someone else make this game.. https://t.co/T9jSg4e2p0
— Jack Jones
(@presidentjacc) August 20, 2024
Jones’s Madden rating this year is a 74, which isn’t great. In fact, it puts 16 other Raiders players with higher rating than him, including rookies Brock Bowers and Jackson Powers-Johnson.
For further comparison sake, teammate Nate Hobbs has an 81 rating.