Tommy Maddox Madden Career 1994-2006 - Peak 84 OVR

Tommy Maddox Madden Career 1994-2006 - Peak 84 OVR

Position

Team

Steelers

Height

6'4"

Weight

220

College

UCLA

DOB

Sep 2, 1971

Madden

1993-2005

79OVR

2005 Current

84OVR

Peak 2003

Seasons Played

Tommy Maddox was born on September 2, 1971, in Shreveport, Louisiana, and played two seasons at UCLA before the Denver Broncos took him 25th overall in the 1992 draft. He backed up John Elway, then moved to the Rams in 1994 and the Giants in 1995. Madden NFL 94 carried a calculated 26 overall for his 1993 season. He was out of the league by 1997 and worked as an insurance agent in Dallas.

Maddox returned through the Arena Football League and then the XFL, where he was named the league's 2001 MVP and led the Los Angeles Xtreme to a 38-6 win in the Million Dollar Game. Pittsburgh signed him in 2001 and named him the starter on October 2, 2002. On November 10 he threw for 473 yards in a 34-34 tie with Atlanta, and he was voted NFL Comeback Player of the Year. Madden NFL 03 listed him at 59 for that season.

He started all 16 games in 2003, a season Madden NFL 04 rated 84. Pittsburgh drafted Ben Roethlisberger in 2004, and Maddox made his final start on November 20, 2005, a 16-13 overtime loss to Baltimore; Madden NFL 06 had him at 79 for 2005. He was on the roster when the Steelers won Super Bowl XL and was released on March 3, 2006. Over 92 games he completed 683 of 1,200 passes for 8,087 yards, 48 touchdowns and 54 interceptions.

Tommy Maddox Madden Career Milestones

Peak rating: 84 OVR in Madden NFL 2004 (age 32)
Appeared in 6 Madden releases (Madden NFL 1994 through Madden NFL 2006)
Entered at 26 OVR in Madden NFL 1994, climbed 58 points to his peak
Biggest single-year rise: 36 points into Madden NFL 1996
Played for 3 franchises: Broncos, Giants, Steelers
Listed as a quarterback in every Madden release
Final Madden appearance: Madden NFL 2006 at 79 OVR

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

Madden	Pos	OVR	Speed	ACC	AGI	STR	JMP	STA	INJ	TGH	AWR	THP	TAC	TAS	TAM	TAD	CAR	BTK	CTH	RBK	PBK	TAK	KPW	KAC	KRN
1994 ^* 1993 NFL season	QB	26*	20	-	26	-	-	-	-	-	-	7	26	-	-	-	-	0	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1996 ^* 1995 NFL season	QB	62*	53	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	59	66	-	-	-	-	13	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2003 2002 NFL season	QB	59	45	38	53	54	47	77	67	70	-	79	-	-	-	-	43	-	16	24	32	20	14	21	-
2004 2003 NFL season	QB	84	49	55	49	60	47	83	70	85	85	89	-	90	90	90	48	-	16	24	32	20	14	21	0
2005 2004 NFL season	QB	84	49	55	49	60	47	83	70	85	87	90	-	89	89	89	48	-	16	24	32	20	14	21	-
2006 2005 NFL season	QB	79	49	55	49	58	47	83	70	-	80	87	-	87	87	87	43	-	16	24	32	20	14	21	0

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 Tommy Maddox

Aaron Rodgers

Madden NFL 2006-2026 - Steelers

Tom Brady

Madden NFL 2003-2023 - Buccaneers

Drew Brees

Madden NFL 2002-2021 - Saints

Peyton Manning

Madden NFL 1999-2016 - Broncos

Drew Bledsoe

Madden NFL 1995-2007 - Cowboys

Brett Favre

Madden NFL 1994-2011 - Vikings

Daunte Culpepper

Madden NFL 2000-2010 - Lions

Eli Manning

Madden NFL 2005-2020 - Giants

#1	Troy Polamalu SS USC	99
#2	Antonio Brown WR Central Michigan	99
#3	Alan Faneca LG LSU	98
#4	James Harrison OLB Kent St.	98
#5	Joey Porter OLB Colorado St.	97
#6	Casey Hampton NT Texas	97
#7	Le'Veon Bell RB Michigan St.	97
#8	T.J. Watt OLB Wisconsin	97

Tommy Maddox Madden Ratings by Year

Tommy Maddox Madden NFL 1994 rating: 26 OVR (1993 NFL season, DEN). Tommy Maddox Madden NFL 1996 rating: 62 OVR (1995 NFL season, NYG). Tommy Maddox Madden NFL 2003 rating: 59 OVR (2002 NFL season, PIT). Tommy Maddox Madden NFL 2004 rating: 84 OVR (2003 NFL season, PIT). Tommy Maddox Madden NFL 2005 rating: 84 OVR (2004 NFL season, PIT). Tommy Maddox Madden NFL 2006 rating: 79 OVR (2005 NFL season, PIT).