Mike Tomczak Madden Career 1992-2000 - Peak 84 OVR
Mike Tomczak Madden NFL 2000 rating

Mike Tomczak Madden Career 1992-2000 - Peak 84 OVR

Position
QB
Team
Height
6'1"
Weight
202
College
Ohio St.
DOB
Oct 23, 1962
Madden
1991-1999
71OVR
1999 Current
84OVR
Peak 1994
8
Seasons Played

Mike Tomczak: undrafted QB, 15 NFL seasons, 16,079 yards

Mike Tomczak was born on October 23, 1962, in Calumet City, Illinois and played college football at Ohio State. He went undrafted in 1985 and signed with the Chicago Bears, who won Super Bowl XX in his rookie year; he played on the kickoff unit in the 46-10 win on January 26, 1986. He started the Bears' 20-12 playoff win over Philadelphia on December 31, 1988, a game played in heavy fog at Soldier Field.

Green Bay signed him after the 1990 season, and he started seven games and threw 11 touchdown passes in 1991, a year Madden NFL 92 graded at a calculated 30. He spent 1992 in Cleveland, signed with Pittsburgh in 1993 and stayed seven seasons; Madden NFL 95 listed him at a calculated 84 for 1994.

Tomczak started Pittsburgh's last 15 regular-season games of 1996 and both playoff games, and the Steelers won 11 of them, with Madden NFL 97 grading that season at 53. He spelled Kordell Stewart for stretches of 1999, a season Madden NFL 2000 put at a calculated 71, and threw for 309 yards and two touchdowns in his last game, a 47-36 loss to Tennessee. He broke his right tibia in a 2000 preseason game with Detroit and did not play again, finishing with 16,079 passing yards, 88 touchdowns and 106 interceptions.

Mike Tomczak Madden Career Milestones

  • Peak rating: 84 OVR (calculated) in Madden NFL 1995
  • Appeared in 8 Madden releases (Madden NFL 1992 through Madden NFL 2000)
  • Entered at 30 OVR in Madden NFL 1992, climbed 54 points to his peak
  • Biggest single-year rise: 51 points into Madden NFL 1995
  • Played for 2 franchises: Packers, Steelers
  • Listed as a quarterback in every Madden release
  • Final Madden appearance: Madden NFL 2000 at 71 OVR

Mike Tomczak Madden Career Ratings

Scale (starred* rows) Only the starred 1-15-era seasons convert; modern rows stay 0-99.
Madden Team Pos OVR Speed ACC AGI STR JMP STA INJ AWR THP TAC CAR BTK CTH TAK
1992 *
1991 NFL season
Packers QB 30* 20 - 40 - - - - - 7 13 - 0 - -
1994 *
1993 NFL season
Steelers QB 33* 26 - 20 - - - - - 26 40 - 7 - -
1995 *
1994 NFL season
Steelers QB 84* 50 - - - - - - 95 74 66 - - - -
1996 *
1995 NFL season
Steelers QB 56* 46 - - - - - - - 66 46 - 20 - -
1997
1996 NFL season
Steelers QB 53 51 59 46 - 55 38 - 76 72 62 83 10 9 8
1998 *
1997 NFL season
Steelers QB 73* 40 - 53 - - - - - 73 73 - 26 - -
1999
1998 NFL season
Steelers QB 61* 50 50 50 44 - - 4 59 64 52 53 19 9 9
2000
1999 NFL season
Steelers QB 71* 46 44 55 49 - - 67 69 74 59 55 25 9 19
How to read these: Each row is the player’s rating in that year’s Madden, listed by the NFL season it covers (Madden NFL 2001 = the 2000 season). Madden sets its ratings before the season is played, so they reflect the previous season’s performance - a player’s breakout year tends to show up as a jump in the following year’s game.
About the starred rows*: Several early Madden releases rated players on a 1-15 scale, as printed in the game manuals, rather than the modern 0-99. We store those ratings converted to 0-99 (each manual point is about 6.6) so you can compare players across eras at a glance - use the 0-99 / 1-15 toggle above the table to see the original numbers on those seasons. EA didn’t publish an overall rating in those games, so the OVR* values for those years are our own calculation, the average of the player’s two best ratings.
Note: Some Madden releases tracked fewer attributes than others. Cells shown as - were not published by EA that year.

Mike Tomczak Madden Ratings by Year

Mike Tomczak Madden NFL 1992 rating: 30 OVR (1991 NFL season, GB). Mike Tomczak Madden NFL 1994 rating: 33 OVR (1993 NFL season, PIT). Mike Tomczak Madden NFL 1995 rating: 84 OVR (1994 NFL season, PIT). Mike Tomczak Madden NFL 1996 rating: 56 OVR (1995 NFL season, PIT). Mike Tomczak Madden NFL 1997 rating: 53 OVR (1996 NFL season, PIT). Mike Tomczak Madden NFL 1998 rating: 73 OVR (1997 NFL season, PIT). Mike Tomczak Madden NFL 1999 rating: 61 OVR (1998 NFL season, PIT). Mike Tomczak Madden NFL 2000 rating: 71 OVR (1999 NFL season, PIT).