Tommie Agee Madden Career 1992-1995 - Peak 86 OVR

Tommie Agee spent his college career at Auburn clearing the way for Bo Jackson, and he made a professional living doing more of the same. A fifth-round pick of the Seahawks in 1987, he bounced through Seattle and Kansas City before landing in Dallas in 1990, where he started at fullback for a young Emmitt Smith before settling into a backup and special-teams role.

Madden's cards of him are the usual noisy fullback set. Agee peaked at an 86 in Madden NFL 95 for the 1994 season, propped up by a 99 awareness rating that looks like a data artifact, and sat in the 40s and 50s otherwise, the honest range for a blocking back.

Agee won two Super Bowls with Dallas, XXVII and XXVIII, and finished with modest career rushing and receiving numbers across eight seasons, the profile of a lead blocker and role player rather than a ball-carrier. He was a fullback who spent his whole career springing more famous runners, first Bo Jackson and then Emmitt Smith. Madden's grades never captured that, because blocking is the thing the game has never learned to score.