Howard Griffith Madden Career 1995-2000 - Peak 94 OVR

Howard Griffith Madden Career 1995-2000 - Peak 94 OVR

Position

Team

Broncos

Height

6'0"

Weight

230

College

Illinois

DOB

Nov 17, 1967

Madden

1994-1999

85OVR

1999 Current

94OVR

Peak 1994

Seasons Played

Howard Griffith was born on November 17, 1967, in Chicago and played college football at Illinois, where on September 22, 1990 he scored eight touchdowns against Southern Illinois, an NCAA single-game record. The Indianapolis Colts drafted him in the ninth round in 1991, but he never played a regular-season game for them. He debuted with the Los Angeles Rams in 1993. Madden NFL 95 put him at a calculated 94 for the 1994 season, when he started 10 games in the Rams backfield.

Carolina took him in the 1995 expansion draft, and he started 14 games for the Panthers in 1996, a year Madden NFL 97 rated him 33. Denver signed him in February 1997, and he spent four seasons as the lead blocker for Terrell Davis. The Broncos won Super Bowl XXXII and Super Bowl XXXIII, and Griffith scored two rushing touchdowns in the second of those, a 34-19 win over Atlanta on January 31, 1999. Madden NFL 99 put him at a calculated 90 for the 1998 season.

He started all 16 games in 1999 and 14 more in 2000, his last season of NFL football. Madden NFL 02 rated him 94 for 2001, a season he missed entirely after a preseason neck injury. Griffith retired in 2002 with 351 rushing yards, 122 receptions for 844 yards and 12 touchdowns.

Howard Griffith Madden Career Milestones

Peak rating: 94 OVR (calculated) in Madden NFL 1995
Appeared in 6 Madden releases (Madden NFL 1995 through Madden NFL 2000)
Biggest single-year rise: 40 points into Madden NFL 1998
Played for 3 franchises: Rams, Panthers, Broncos
Listed as a running back in every Madden release
Final Madden appearance: Madden NFL 2000 at 85 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	CAR	BTK	CTH	TAK
1995 ^* 1994 NFL season	FB	94*	90	-	43	-	-	-	-	99	9	23	16	-
1996 ^* 1995 NFL season	FB	59*	53	-	53	-	-	-	-	59	20	46	59	-
1997 1996 NFL season	FB	33	65	48	50	-	59	68	-	38	41	66	17	15
1998 ^* 1997 NFL season	FB	73*	59	-	73	-	-	-	-	-	73	40	53	-
1999 1998 NFL season	FB	90*	71	69	75	69	-	-	52	88	92	60	69	18
2000 1999 NFL season	FB	85*	64	58	65	64	-	-	75	85	85	59	62	29

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 Running Backs who played alongside Howard Griffith

Lorenzo Neal

Madden NFL 1995-2009 - Ravens

Marshall Faulk

Madden NFL 1995-2007

Emmitt Smith

Madden NFL 1992-2005 - Cardinals

Thurman Thomas

Madden NFL 1992-2001 - Dolphins

Priest Holmes

Madden NFL 1999-2008 - Chiefs

Madden NFL 1997-2008 - Seahawks

#1	Champ Bailey CB Georgia	99
#2	Von Miller OLB Texas A&M	99
#3	Ryan Clady LT Boise St.	98
#4	Peyton Manning QB Tennessee	98
#5	Patrick Surtain II CB Alabama	97
#6	Al Wilson MLB Tennessee	96
#7	Jason Elam K Hawaii	96
#8	Todd Sauerbrun P West Virginia	96

Howard Griffith Madden Ratings by Year

Howard Griffith Madden NFL 1995 rating: 94 OVR (1994 NFL season, STL). Howard Griffith Madden NFL 1996 rating: 59 OVR (1995 NFL season, CAR). Howard Griffith Madden NFL 1997 rating: 33 OVR (1996 NFL season, CAR). Howard Griffith Madden NFL 1998 rating: 73 OVR (1997 NFL season, DEN). Howard Griffith Madden NFL 1999 rating: 90 OVR (1998 NFL season, DEN). Howard Griffith Madden NFL 2000 rating: 85 OVR (1999 NFL season, DEN).