The Madden Ratings Database Is Live, Every Player from Madden NFL 92 to Madden NFL 26

Every player. Every team. Every EA Sports release. Speed, Awareness, Throw Power, Catching, Coverage, the lot. On one scale, across 35 Madden releases, ready to compare. The most complete public Madden ratings database on the web.

Here is what is inside.

The reason it works

Open any other Madden ratings site. Try to look up John Elway in Madden NFL 95. You will find a forum thread, maybe a screenshot. Try to compare Elway's Awareness in Madden 95 against Patrick Mahomes' Awareness in Madden 26. You will not find a way to do it.

This one is built differently. Every Madden release from Madden NFL 92 onwards has been parsed into the same database, on the same 0-99 scale. When the early 1990s games rated players 1-15 (Madden NFL 92 through 95, plus the back-to-1-15 release in 97), we converted those to the modern 0-99 view AND kept the original. There is a scale toggle on every legacy-era page. Click 1–15 to see what the manual actually printed.

That is what makes a cross-era comparison work. It is what puts Dan Marino's 1994 Throw Power on the same ranking as Patrick Mahomes' 2025 Throw Power. Same scale, same number, no era discount.

By year

Pick any release from Madden NFL 92 through Madden NFL 26. One page, the whole roster, every attribute the game tracked that year. Sorted by overall rating, filterable by position group.

Want just the quarterbacks of Madden NFL 96? Click the QB tab. Defensive backs in Madden NFL 04? Click DB. Every group, every year, one click each. Tap any player to drop into his career page.

A short editorial summary at the top of each year sets the scene. Who was on the cover, what was happening in the NFL that season, which rookies came in hot, which veterans got the bigger number than they probably deserved. Madden NFL 26 was Saquon Barkley on the cover. Madden NFL 04 was Michael Vick on the cover. Both reads have the receipts.

By team

Pick a franchise. Pick a year. Get the whole roster sorted by overall, with every player's attribute breakdown.

Every team page also carries a "Highest Rated Ever" panel. The franchise GOAT plus a set of curated superlatives. Strongest Arm. Fastest. Pass-Rush King. Best Hands. Brick Wall. Lockdown Corner. Big Hitter. Ball Hawk. Workhorse. The categories adapt to what each franchise actually produced. The Bengals do not get a Pass-Rush King unless they actually had one. The 49ers do.

The GOAT pick leans toward sustained excellence, not one-year wonders. Mahomes for the Chiefs. Lamar for the Ravens. Bills get Allen, not Thurman Thomas. It is the franchise's all-time Madden top shelf, era-agnostic.

Player career pages

Tap any player and drop into the career view. Every Madden release he appeared in. His ratings year by year. His peak. His current. The era peers we know about. Other quarterbacks whose careers overlapped his, so you can hop sideways from Mahomes to Burrow to Jackson without going back to a list.

If the player was on a Madden roster but missed the actual NFL season, we flag it. Joe Montana's 1991 row carries a "Did not play" badge. The game shipped with him as the 49ers' QB1 because EA did not know yet that elbow surgery would cost him the year. The badge explains it, the rating stays so you can see what EA expected pre-injury.

For old-era seasons where EA did not publish an overall rating, we derive a synthetic one from the player's top two attributes. Same convention the position rankings use. Marked with a small star so you know it is a derived number, not a printed one.

All-time leaderboards

Madden NFL All-Time Player Rating Leaderboards. The top 100 single-season ratings for every attribute, across every Madden release. 20 boards plus two career boards.

Physical: Speed, Acceleration, Agility, Strength, Jumping. Mental: Awareness. Skill: Throw Power, Throw Accuracy, Catching, Spectacular Catch, Carrying, Trucking. Lines: Run Block, Pass Block. Defence: Tackle, Hit Power, Man Coverage, Zone Coverage, Press. Kicking: Kick Power, Kick Accuracy.

Same shape on every board. Top 100 single-season ratings, one ranking, cross-era. Bo Jackson's 99 Speed in the early 90s sits right next to Tyreek Hill's. Lawrence Taylor's Awareness sits next to Patrick Willis's. Marino's Throw Power sits next to Mahomes's.

Plus the two career boards. The 99 Club lists every player who has ever hit a launch-day 99 OVR, in the order they got there. The Longest Madden Careers board ranks players by total releases featured. Brett Favre, Tom Brady, Adam Vinatieri territory.

Every per-attribute deep page filters by era (60s, 70s ... 2020s) and by position group, so a question like "fastest defensive backs of the 2000s" is two clicks.

Universal search

Top of every Madden page is a type-ahead search. Two characters in and the dropdown narrows to the player. Portrait, position, peak OVR, era. Click through. Works for current stars, retired stars, and the deep-cut legends EA put in but most ratings sites lost track of.

What we mean by "complete"

35 Madden releases. Every team, every roster, every player on every roster, every attribute the game tracked. Some legacy releases stored less. The Sega Genesis era tracked maybe a dozen ratings per player, not the 80 the modern games do. We show what the source data has and leave the rest blank rather than guessing. The synthetic-OVR rule fills in the all-important Overall column when EA did not publish one. The 1–15 / 0–99 scale toggle handles the early-90s rating system change.

Identity has been the hardest part. EA's internal player ids change every year, and the legacy games use generic slot labels ("QB1", "WR3") instead of names. So we built a name + team + position + jersey number matcher to bridge every Madden row to pro-football-reference's canonical player ids. About 40,000 players are now searchable and linkable across the database.

That is what makes this different from screenshot-and-spreadsheet sites. It is one database, one player identity, one career trace across every Madden game that player ever appeared in.

Where to start

Here for nostalgia? Pick a year. Madden NFL 96, Madden NFL 04, Madden NFL 12, whatever year you remember the cover of. Browse the roster. Tap the players you forgot were 88-rated.

Here for current ratings? Madden NFL 26 is the latest release. Top-rated QBs, RBs, WRs, every position group, every team.

Here for cross-era arguments? The leaderboards settle them with raw 0–99 numbers across every Madden game. Bring receipts.

Here for one player? Search his name at the top of any Madden page. Whole career, every Madden release, in one table.

Anything broken, anything missing, anything you want next, send a note from the contact link at the bottom of the page.

Now go look up your guy.