Ralph Tamm Madden Career 1995-1998 - Peak 94 OVR

Ralph Tamm was a ninth-round pick out of West Chester in 1988 who turned a dozen years and seven teams into two Super Bowl rings, a fine outcome for an interior lineman nobody expected to stick. He was a guard, center and long snapper, the ultimate utility body, and he spent three seasons in San Francisco, from 1992 to 1994, winning a ring on the XXIX champions.

Madden's cards of him carry the familiar glitch. His best number was a 94 for the 1994 season, inflated by a 98 awareness rating that is plainly a data artifact, and his grades crashed into the 50s the moment he left for Denver, the honest range for a journeyman backup. The 94 is noise; the high-50s are the player.

Tamm won Super Bowl XXVI with Washington and Super Bowl XXIX with the 49ers, timing his roster spots well, and played 121 games for a long list of teams before retiring in 1999. He was a versatile reserve who could snap, guard and center, just the lineman who lasts precisely because he can do a little of everything. Madden's one big number is a glitch; the two rings are real.