Continuing our offseason slate of player ratings in the latest version of the Madden NFL football video game franchise, Madden 21, we have a new official slate of players and their results posted.
We did have a bunch of rumored ones released on Monday via Madden School, but now rookie running backs were officially released by the creators of the game, EA Sports, via ESPN. In this group is perhaps the Bills’ most highly-anticipated rookie: Zack Moss.
Moss is one of a few rookie rushers that play a part in the jumbled ratings of rookie rushers. Moss, at 70 overall, is the seventh-highest rated rookie running back. Overall at the actual 2020 Draft, he was the eighth taken, so a slight jump. The player he jumped was Bucs running back Ke’Shaqn Vaugh, who was selected 10 picks before him. In addition, Moss also ranks higher than the Raiders’ Lynn Bowden and Washington’s Antonio Gibson. Those two are not pure running backs, but flex RB/ WRs, and taken before him. Still, Moss is held in higher regard, ever so slightly.
But jumbled or ruffled is really the only way to describe the ratings for rookie running backs. Of all rookie rushers, only one was a first-round pick, the Chiefs’ Clyde Edwards-Helaire. He clocked in at a 74 overall Madden rating, the second best. Who was the No.1? Bit of a surprise, the Ravens’ JK Dobbins, at 75 overall. He wasn’t the second running back drafted either. Rather, he was the fifth. So a bit of a surprise there.
There’s a few twists and in Madden’s top running back ratings, so we’ll graph it out here:
| Madden rating | Name | Team | Drafted RB order | Round/ pick |
| 75 | JK Dobbins | Ravens | 5th | RD 2/ No. 55 |
| 74 | Clyde Edwards-Helaire | Chiefs | 1st | RD 1/ No. 32 |
| 74 | D’Andre Swift | Lions | 2nd | RD 2/ No. 35 |
| 73 | Cam Akers | Rams | 4th | RD 2/ No. 52 |
| 73 | Jonathan Taylor | Colts | 3rd | RD 2/ No. 41 |
| 72 | AJ Dillion | Packers | 6th | RD 2/ No. 62 |
| 70 | Zack Moss | Bills | 10th | RD 3/ No. 86 |
| 69 | Antonio Gibson | Washington | 7th | RD 3/ No. 66 |
| 69 | Darrynton Evans | Titans | 11th | RD 3/ No. 93 |
| 69 | Ke’Shawn Vaugh | Bucs | 8th | RD 3/ No. 76 |
| 69 | Lynn Bowden Jr. | Raiders | 9th | RD 3/ No. 80 |
Rounding it out, here’s Moss and his card in Madden with some of his individual ratings in the game. In addition, check out the links below for our previously reported on Madden 21 ratings and rumors:
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