John Burke Madden Career 1996-1998 - Peak 73 OVR
John Burke Madden NFL 1998 rating

John Burke Madden Career 1996-1998 - Peak 73 OVR

Position
TE
Team
Height
6'3"
Weight
248
College
Virginia Tech
DOB
Sep 7, 1971
Madden
1995-1997
73OVR
1997 Current
73OVR
Peak 1997
3
Seasons Played

John Burke Madden Career Ratings

Scale (starred* rows) Only the starred 1-15-era seasons convert; modern rows stay 0-99.
Madden Team Pos OVR Speed ACC AGI JMP STA AWR CAR BTK CTH TAK
1996 *
1995 NFL season
Patriots TE 59* 53 - 46 - - 66 46 53 20 -
1997
1996 NFL season
Patriots TE 42 40 30 43 88 58 42 36 21 25 10
1998 *
1997 NFL season
Jets TE 73* 73 - 73 - - - 33 20 26 -
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.

John Burke Madden Career Milestones

  • Peak rating: 73 OVR (calculated) in Madden NFL 1998
  • Appeared in 3 Madden releases (Madden NFL 1996 through Madden NFL 1998)
  • Played for 2 franchises: Patriots, Jets
  • Listed as a tight end in every Madden release

John Burke Madden Ratings by Year

John Burke Madden NFL 1996 rating: 59 OVR (1995 NFL season, NE). John Burke Madden NFL 1997 rating: 42 OVR (1996 NFL season, NE). John Burke Madden NFL 1998 rating: 73 OVR (1997 NFL season, NYJ).