Ray Roberts Madden Career 1994-2000 - Peak 92 OVR

Ray Roberts Madden Career 1994-2000 - Peak 92 OVR

Position

Team

Lions

Height

6'6"

Weight

315

College

Virginia

DOB

Jun 3, 1969

Madden

1993-1999

84OVR

1999 Current

92OVR

Peak 1996

Seasons Played

Seattle reached for Ray Roberts with the 10th pick of the 1992 draft, drawn to a 6-foot-6, 300-pound tackle out of Virginia who had won the Jacobs Trophy as the ACC's best blocker in back-to-back seasons. He gave the Seahawks four years at tackle, then finished his career protecting the edge in Detroit, 116 starts across 127 games.

He never made a Pro Bowl, but the early Madden games saw the frame and the pedigree and liked them: a 92 in the 1996 edition stood as his high, with the number settling to 83 by the 2000 edition and 77 in 2001 as the career wound down. A big, quiet professional who did his job at the line and let others chase the headlines.

Ray Roberts Madden Career Milestones

Peak rating: 92 OVR in Madden NFL 1997
Appeared in 7 Madden releases (Madden NFL 1994 through Madden NFL 2000)
Entered at 26 OVR in Madden NFL 1994, climbed 66 points to his peak
Biggest single-year rise: 48 points into Madden NFL 1995
Played for 2 franchises: Seahawks, Lions
Listed as a offensive lineman in every Madden release
Final Madden appearance: Madden NFL 2000 at 84 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	AWR	BTK	RBK	PBK
1994 ^* 1993 NFL season	LT	26*	46	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0	20	33
1995 ^* 1994 NFL season	LT	74*	29	-	-	36	-	-	-	74	74	74	36
1996 ^* 1995 NFL season	T	66*	46	-	40	66	-	-	-	-	-	66	59
1997 1996 NFL season	LT	92	37	23	44	-	37	50	-	87	-	92	82
1998 ^* 1997 NFL season	LT	69*	46	-	53	-	-	-	-	-	-	40	86
1999 1998 NFL season	LT	90*	48	49	53	88	-	-	83	85	-	92	85
2000 1999 NFL season	LT	84*	42	46	47	88	-	-	73	80	-	75	80

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 Offensive Linemen who played alongside Ray Roberts

Walter Jones

Madden NFL 1999-2010 - Seahawks

Larry Allen

Madden NFL 1995-2008 - 49ers

Jonathan Ogden

Madden NFL 1997-2008 - Ravens

Olin Kreutz

Madden NFL 1999-2012

Alan Faneca

Madden NFL 1999-2011 - Cardinals

Kevin Mawae

Madden NFL 1995-2010 - Titans

Orlando Pace

Madden NFL 1998-2010 - Bears

Will Shields

Madden NFL 1995-2007 - Chiefs

#1	Herman Moore WR Virginia	99
#2	Calvin Johnson WR Georgia Tech	99
#3	Michael Brooks LB LSU	98
#4	Ndamukong Suh DT Nebraska	97
#5	Pepper Johnson MLB Ohio St.	97
#6	Penei Sewell T Oregon	96
#7	Amon-Ra St. Brown WR USC	96
#8	Barry Sanders RB Oklahoma St.	96

Ray Roberts Madden Ratings by Year

Ray Roberts Madden NFL 1994 rating: 26 OVR (1993 NFL season, SEA). Ray Roberts Madden NFL 1995 rating: 74 OVR (1994 NFL season, SEA). Ray Roberts Madden NFL 1996 rating: 66 OVR (1995 NFL season, SEA). Ray Roberts Madden NFL 1997 rating: 92 OVR (1996 NFL season, DET). Ray Roberts Madden NFL 1998 rating: 69 OVR (1997 NFL season, DET). Ray Roberts Madden NFL 1999 rating: 90 OVR (1998 NFL season, DET). Ray Roberts Madden NFL 2000 rating: 84 OVR (1999 NFL season, DET).