Phil Simms Madden Career 1992-1994 - Peak 59 OVR

Phil Simms Madden Career 1992-1994 - Peak 59 OVR

Position

Team

Giants

Height

6'3"

Weight

216

College

Morehead St.

DOB

Nov 3, 1955

Madden

1991-1993

46OVR

1993 Current

59OVR

Peak 1991

Seasons Played

Phil Simms was born on November 3, 1955 in Springfield, Kentucky, and played college football at Morehead State, where he finished with a school-record 5,545 passing yards. The New York Giants selected him seventh overall in the 1979 NFL draft. He won his first five starts as a rookie and was named to the NFL All-Rookie Team.

Simms threw for 4,044 yards in 1984 and, on October 13, 1985, passed for 513 yards against Cincinnati in a 35-30 loss. He was voted to the Pro Bowl for the 1985 season. In Super Bowl XXI on January 25, 1987, he completed 22 of 25 passes for 268 yards and three touchdowns in a 39-20 win over Denver and was named the game's MVP, setting Super Bowl marks of 88 percent accuracy and a 150.9 passer rating.

A broken foot in Week 15 of 1990 ended his season, and Jeff Hostetler started Super Bowl XXV. Madden NFL 92 put Simms at a calculated 59 for the 1991 season, when Hostetler opened as the starter, and Madden NFL 93 had him at a calculated 46 for 1992, a year cut short by an elbow injury. He started all 16 games in 1993 and made a second Pro Bowl, a season Madden NFL 94 graded at a calculated 46. Released in 1994, he retired with 2,576 completions on 4,647 attempts for 33,462 yards, 199 touchdowns and 157 interceptions.

Phil Simms Madden Career Milestones

Peak rating: 59 OVR (calculated) in Madden NFL 1992
Appeared in 3 Madden releases (Madden NFL 1992 through Madden NFL 1994)
Played for the Giants across every Madden release in his career
Listed as a quarterback in every Madden release
Final Madden appearance: Madden NFL 1994 at 46 OVR

Scale (starred^* rows) Only the starred 1-15-era seasons convert; modern rows stay 0-99.

Madden	Pos	OVR	Speed	AGI	THP	TAC	BTK
1992 ^* 1991 NFL season	QB	59*	26	46	46	73	7
1993 ^* 1992 NFL season	QB	46*	20	40	20	53	0
1994 ^* 1993 NFL season	QB	46*	20	20	26	66	7

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 Quarterbacks who played alongside Phil Simms

Brett Favre

Madden NFL 1994-2011 - Vikings

Rich Gannon

Madden NFL 1992-2005 - Raiders

Steve Bono

Madden NFL 1993-2001 - FREEAGENT

Dave Brown

Madden NFL 1994-2003 - FREEAGENT

Troy Aikman

Madden NFL 1992-2001 - Cowboys

Steve Young

Madden NFL 1992-2000 - 49ers

Steve Beuerlein

Madden NFL 1992-2004 - Broncos

Dan Marino

Madden NFL 1992-2000 - Dolphins

#1	Michael Strahan DE Texas Southern	99
#2	Jeremy Shockey TE Miami (FL)	97
#3	Eli Manning QB Mississippi	97
#4	Chris Snee RG Boston Col.	97
#5	Dexter Lawrence DL Clemson	97
#6	Plaxico Burress WR Michigan St.	96
#7	Jason Pierre-Pau DE South Florida	96
#8	Antonio Pierce MLB Arizona	95

Phil Simms Madden Ratings by Year

Phil Simms Madden NFL 1992 rating: 59 OVR (1991 NFL season, NYG). Phil Simms Madden NFL 1993 rating: 46 OVR (1992 NFL season, NYG). Phil Simms Madden NFL 1994 rating: 46 OVR (1993 NFL season, NYG).