The wildly popular Madden NFL video game series will be releasing its 2024 edition soon, and to generate buzz for the game, EA Sports is slowly revealing the Madden 24 ratings for every NFL player this week.
EA Sports kicked things off Monday with ratings for wide receivers and safeties.
To the dismay of many Chicago Bears fans, no Bears receivers or safeties cracked the top 10, but a couple landed a rating in the high 80s.
Here's the full list of Chicago Bears Madden 24 ratings
Wide Receivers
DJ Moore (86), Darnell Mooney (81), Chase Claypool (76), Dante Pettis (73), Tyler Scott (71), Equanimeous St. Brown (71), Velus Jones Jr. (69), Joe Reed (67), Nsimba Webster (67), and Daurice Fountain (66)
Safeties
Safeties - Eddie Jackson (85), Jaquan Brisker (78), Adrian Colbert (67), Elijah Hicks (66), Kendall Williamson (64), and A.J. Thomas (58)
Madden 24 Ratings can be deceiving
What I found most interesting about these Madden 24 ratings was not so much the numbers themselves but where they compared to other players.
DJ Moore's 86 rating makes him a very good player in the video game, but he is just the 24th overall receiver. I can't name 23 better receivers than him; I can barely name half that many.
But while the ranking sounds low, it's good to remember that 86 still makes him a top player in the game. Adding just 5 points to his overall rating would move him up to 10th overall, so the margins separating these guys are incredibly narrow.
Similarly, Eddie Jackson has an excellent rating of 85, but it ranks him 18th overall for safeties. A 5-point bump would make him tied for 7th overall, so once again, there are a lot of outstanding players separated by razor-thin margins.
I think there's an argument for Jackson to have a 90 Madden rating, given that he was on track to win an All-Pro award in 2022 before his season-ending injury, but I digress.
The rest of the ratings seem fair. Though brimming with promise, young guys like Mooney, Claypool, and Brisker still have to prove it on the field to rise above the high 70s and low 80s in their ratings.
EA Sports will release Madden 24 ratings for EDGE rushers and the defensive line next, and given the current state of the Bears' defensive line, Bears fans may want to look away.
What Bears fans are truly interested in, however, are the quarterback ratings. They'll be released at the end of the week. We'll see what EA Sports has in store for Justin Fields in this year's Madden.
