Tony Jones LT - Browns Madden Career 1992-2000 - Peak 92 OVR
Tony Jones Madden NFL 2000 rating

Tony Jones LT - Browns Madden Career 1992-2000 - Peak 92 OVR

Position
LT
Team
Browns
Height
6'5"
Weight
290
College
Western Carolina
DOB
May 24, 1966
Madden
1991-1999
90OVR
1999 Current
92OVR
Peak 1998
9
Seasons Played

Elway's blindside protector on back-to-back Denver titles

Tony Jones spent thirteen NFL seasons proving that undrafted does not mean unqualified. Signed out of college in 1988, he anchored the Cleveland line, moved with the franchise to Baltimore, and then got shipped to Denver in 1997, where he guarded John Elway's blindside on the two best teams of that era.

Jones started at left tackle in Super Bowl XXXII, the 31-24 upset of Green Bay, and again in Super Bowl XXXIII, the win over Atlanta that sent Elway out a champion. He earned a Pro Bowl nod in 1998, the middle of that run, and finished with 184 games and 174 starts. He died in January 2021 at 54 from kidney disease.

Madden logged his late-career rise from a 72 in the 1996 edition to a 90 in the 2000 edition, the game recognizing a tackle whose reputation peaked right alongside those Denver championships before easing to 89 the following year.

Tony Jones Madden Career Milestones

  • Peak rating: 92 OVR (calculated) in Madden NFL 1999
  • Appeared in 9 Madden releases (Madden NFL 1992 through Madden NFL 2000)
  • Entered at 46 OVR in Madden NFL 1992, climbed 46 points to his peak
  • Biggest single-year rise: 92 points into Madden NFL 1999
  • Played for 3 franchises: Browns, Ravens, Broncos
  • Listed as a offensive lineman in every Madden release
  • Final Madden appearance: Madden NFL 2000 at 90 OVR

Tony Jones 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 BTK RBK PBK
1992 *
1991 NFL season
 Browns LT 46* 7 - - - - - - - 0 53 40
1993 *
1992 NFL season
 Browns LT 46* 7 - - - - - - - 0 53 40
1994 *
1993 NFL season
 Browns LT 66* 26 - - - - - - - 0 79 53
1995 *
1994 NFL season
 Browns LT 66* 29 - - 36 - - - 82 82 50 36
1996 *
1995 NFL season
 Browns LT 69* 53 - 46 66 - - - - - 59 73
1997
1996 NFL season
 Ravens LT 72 22 18 27 - 57 60 - 74 - 71 76
1998 *
1997 NFL season
 Broncos RT/LT - 59 - 66 - - - - - - 46 89
1999
1998 NFL season
 Broncos LT 92* 45 44 51 90 - - 82 88 - 95 69
2000
1999 NFL season
 Broncos LT 90* 43 45 48 92 - - 58 87 - 75 88
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.

Era Offensive Linemen who played alongside Tony Jones

Walter Jones Madden ratings
Walter Jones
Madden NFL 1999-2010 - Seahawks
99
 Larry Allen Madden ratings
Larry Allen
Madden NFL 1995-2008 - 49ers
99
 Jonathan Ogden Madden ratings
Jonathan Ogden
Madden NFL 1997-2008 - Ravens
99
 Olin Kreutz Madden ratings
Olin Kreutz
Madden NFL 1999-2012
98
 Alan Faneca Madden ratings
Alan Faneca
Madden NFL 1999-2011 - Cardinals
98
 Kevin Mawae Madden ratings
Kevin Mawae
Madden NFL 1995-2010 - Titans
98
 Orlando Pace Madden ratings
Orlando Pace
Madden NFL 1998-2010 - Bears
98
 Will Shields Madden ratings
Will Shields
Madden NFL 1995-2007 - Chiefs
98

Tony Jones Madden Ratings by Year

Tony Jones Madden NFL 1992 rating: 46 OVR (1991 NFL season, CLE). Tony Jones Madden NFL 1993 rating: 46 OVR (1992 NFL season, CLE). Tony Jones Madden NFL 1994 rating: 66 OVR (1993 NFL season, CLE). Tony Jones Madden NFL 1995 rating: 66 OVR (1994 NFL season, CLE). Tony Jones Madden NFL 1996 rating: 69 OVR (1995 NFL season, CLE). Tony Jones Madden NFL 1997 rating: 72 OVR (1996 NFL season, BAL). Tony Jones Madden NFL 1998 rating: rated (1997 NFL season, DEN). Tony Jones Madden NFL 1999 rating: 92 OVR (1998 NFL season, DEN). Tony Jones Madden NFL 2000 rating: 90 OVR (1999 NFL season, DEN).