Barry Minter Madden Career 1994-2000 - Peak 89 OVR

Barry Minter Madden Career 1994-2000 - Peak 89 OVR

Position

RLB/MLB

Team

Bears

Height

6'2"

Weight

242

College

Tulsa

DOB

Jan 28, 1970

Madden

1993-1999

-OVR

1999 Current

89OVR

Peak 1998

Seasons Played

Barry Minter was a sixth-round Dallas pick out of Tulsa in 1993 who found his home in the middle of the Chicago defense. Once he won the starting job he led the Bears in tackles four straight seasons from 1996 through 1999, including 125 stops and six sacks in 1997. Nicknamed Deer for his closing speed, he was a steady, underrated presence on some lean Chicago rosters.

His run ended the way plenty do in Bears lore. A back injury in 2000 opened the middle for a rookie named Brian Urlacher, and Minter played his final season in Cleveland in 2001.

The ratings we have frame the peak neatly. He was a 45 in the 1996 edition as a role player, jumped to a peak 89 in the 2000 game as the entrenched middle linebacker, then dropped to 79 in the 2001 edition on his way out.

Barry Minter Madden Career Milestones

Peak rating: 89 OVR (calculated) in Madden NFL 1999
Appeared in 7 Madden releases (Madden NFL 1994 through Madden NFL 2000)
Entered at 69 OVR in Madden NFL 1994, climbed 20 points to his peak
Biggest single-year rise: 89 points into Madden NFL 1999
Played for the Bears across every Madden release in his career
Listed as a linebacker in every Madden release

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	CAR	BTK	CTH	TAK	PUR
1994 ^* 1993 NFL season	LB	69*	66	-	53	-	-	-	-	66	-	-	46	73	-
1995 ^* 1994 NFL season	LB	62*	66	-	58	-	-	-	-	50	-	-	-	36	50
1996 ^* 1995 NFL season	LB	66*	53	-	59	-	-	-	-	66	-	-	33	66	59
1997 1996 NFL season	MLB	45	69	47	74	-	32	59	-	44	21	21	37	46	-
1998 ^* 1997 NFL season	RLB	-	66	-	66	-	-	-	-	46	-	-	59	46	-
1999 1998 NFL season	MLB	89*	73	69	75	69	-	-	9	90	19	18	14	88	-
2000 1999 NFL season	RLB/MLB	-	64	59	69	69	-	-	85	69	29	29	34	83	-

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 Linebackers who played alongside Barry Minter

Ray Lewis

Madden NFL 1997-2013 - Ravens

Michael Brooks

Madden NFL 1992-1997 - Lions

Takeo Spikes

Madden NFL 1999-2013 - Chargers

Zach Thomas

Madden NFL 1997-2010 - Chiefs

Greg Lloyd

Madden NFL 1992-1999 - Panthers

Pepper Johnson

Madden NFL 1992-1998 - Jets

Al Wilson

Madden NFL 2000-2007 - Broncos

James Farrior

Madden NFL 1998-2012 - Steelers

#1	Brian Urlacher MLB New Mexico	99
#2	Khalil Mack OLB Buffalo	99
#3	Olin Kreutz C Washington	98
#4	Tommie Harris DT Oklahoma	97
#5	Julius Peppers DE North Carolina	97
#6	Lance Briggs RLB Arizona	96
#7	Brandon Marshall WR Central Florida	96
#8	Brad Maynard P Ball St.	95

Barry Minter Madden Ratings by Year

Barry Minter Madden NFL 1994 rating: 69 OVR (1993 NFL season, CHI). Barry Minter Madden NFL 1995 rating: 62 OVR (1994 NFL season, CHI). Barry Minter Madden NFL 1996 rating: 66 OVR (1995 NFL season, CHI). Barry Minter Madden NFL 1997 rating: 45 OVR (1996 NFL season, CHI). Barry Minter Madden NFL 1998 rating: rated (1997 NFL season, CHI). Barry Minter Madden NFL 1999 rating: 89 OVR (1998 NFL season, CHI). Barry Minter Madden NFL 2000 rating: rated (1999 NFL season, CHI).