Dave Waymer Madden Career Madden NFL 1992 - Peak 99 OVR
Dave Waymer Madden NFL 1992 rating

Dave Waymer Madden Career Madden NFL 1992 - Peak 99 OVR

Position
SS
Team
Height
6'1"
Weight
195
College
Notre Dame
DOB
Jul 1, 1958
Madden
1991-1991
99OVR
1991 Current
99OVR
Peak 1991
1
Seasons Played

Notre Dame corner, 48 interceptions, Saints Hall of Fame

Dave Waymer was born on July 1, 1958 in Brooklyn, New York, grew up in Charlotte, North Carolina, and played college football at Notre Dame, where he was part of the 1977 national championship team. The New Orleans Saints drafted him in the second round, 41st overall, in 1980.

Waymer spent ten seasons in New Orleans and intercepted 37 passes there. He was selected to the Pro Bowl and named second-team All-Pro for the 1987 season. He signed with San Francisco for 1990, starting nine games in the secondary, and started 15 at strong safety in 1991. Madden NFL 92 put him at a calculated 99 for that 1991 season, the only Madden rating of his career and a product of the game's early attribute scale rather than a stored overall.

He played 16 games for the Los Angeles Raiders in 1992 and retired after that season with 48 career interceptions across 13 years. Waymer died on April 30, 1993, at the age of 34, of a heart attack induced by cocaine use. The New Orleans Saints inducted him into their team Hall of Fame in 1996.

Dave Waymer Madden Career Milestones

  • Peak rating: 99 OVR (calculated) in Madden NFL 1992
  • Appeared in 1 Madden release (Madden NFL 1992)
  • Played for the 49ers across every Madden release in his career
  • Listed as a defensive back in every Madden release
  • Final Madden appearance: Madden NFL 1992 at 99 OVR

Dave Waymer Madden Career Ratings

Scale (starred* rows) Only the starred 1-15-era seasons convert; modern rows stay 0-99.
Madden Team Pos OVR Speed AWR CTH TAK
1992 *
1991 NFL season
49ers SS 99* 99 92 99 73
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.

Dave Waymer Madden Ratings by Year

Dave Waymer Madden NFL 1992 rating: 99 OVR (1991 NFL season, SF).