Bill Musgrave Madden Career 1995-1997 - Peak 74 OVR

Bill Musgrave threw for a lot of yards at Oregon and went to Dallas in the fourth round in 1991, but as a pro he was a clipboard-holder, a third- and fourth-string quarterback who barely saw a regular-season snap. He spent parts of four years with San Francisco, buried behind Steve Young and whichever veteran was next in line, and was on the roster for the Super Bowl XXIX team without being any part of the reason it won.

Madden's cards of him are the thin, glitchy sort the game keeps for players it never sees. It rated him a 74 for the 1994 season, propped up by an implausible 99 awareness score, then a 59, then a rating listed as a 2 that is obviously a scale artifact. There was no real player for the numbers to measure, only a name at the bottom of a depth chart.

Musgrave's actual football career came later and on the sideline. He became a respected NFL offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach, running offenses and developing passers for a long list of teams over the next quarter century. The player was an afterthought the game could barely grade. The coach has outlasted almost everyone he once backed up.