Alexander Wright Madden Career 1992-1997 - Peak 98 OVR

Alexander Wright was one of the fastest men in football, and for a while that was the whole of his value. A second-round pick out of Auburn in 1990, he won the NFL's Fastest Man competition twice and set a Cowboys record with a 102-yard kickoff return, a pure straight-line burner Dallas hoped to turn into a deep threat.

It never quite happened. Wright caught passes in bunches only after he left, traded to the Raiders in 1992, and the receiver never matched the sprinter. Madden's cards reflect the confusion, ranging from the 20s to a glitchy 98 in Madden NFL 95 for the 1994 season, built on a 98 speed rating, one of those numbers where the game rated the wheels and ignored the hands.

Wright finished with 101 catches across seven seasons for the Cowboys, Raiders and Rams, and a Super Bowl ring credited to his brief time on the 1992 Dallas roster. He was a track star who played receiver, a speed merchant every team keeps trying to develop, and Madden's inflated 98 caught the one thing he was elite at and none of the things he was not.