Michael Westbrook Madden Career 1996-2002 - Peak 82 OVR

Michael Westbrook Madden NFL 2002 rating

Michael Westbrook Madden Career 1996-2002 - Peak 82 OVR

Position

Team

Commanders

Height

6'3"

Weight

220

College

Colorado

DOB

Jul 7, 1972

Madden

1995-2001

80OVR

2001 Current

82OVR

Peak 1995

Seasons Played

Michael Westbrook is on the receiving end of one of college football's most famous plays. His name is attached to the Miracle at Michigan, the 1994 Hail Mary from Kordell Stewart that he hauled in as time expired to beat the Wolverines. That catch, and a consensus All-America season at Colorado, made him the fourth overall pick of the 1995 draft by Washington.

The pro career never quite matched the billing. His one big year came in 1999, when he went for 1,191 yards and nine touchdowns, but he finished with 285 catches for 4,374 yards across seven seasons in Washington and a final year in Cincinnati. In 1997 he was fined $50,000 for punching teammate Stephen Davis on the sideline, an incident caught on camera. He later earned a Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt and fought in mixed martial arts.

Madden pegged his ceiling right at that 1999 peak. He shows up as a 40 in the 1996 edition as a raw rookie, jumps to a career-high 89 in the 2000 game after his best season, then slides to 80, 75, and 79 across the next three editions.

Michael Westbrook Madden Career Milestones

Peak rating: 82 OVR (calculated) in Madden NFL 1996
Appeared in 6 Madden releases (Madden NFL 1996 through Madden NFL 2002)
Biggest single-year rise: 42 points into Madden NFL 1998
Played for the Commanders across every Madden release in his career
Listed as a wide receiver in every Madden release
Final Madden appearance: Madden NFL 2002 at 80 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	TAS	TAM	TAD	CAR	BTK	CTH	RBK	PBK	TAK	KPW	KAC
1996 ^* 1995 NFL season	WR	82*	86	-	79	-	-	-	-	-	46	-	-	-	-	53	33	66	-	-	-	-	-
1997 1996 NFL season	WR	40	82	64	86	-	32	58	-	-	44	-	-	-	-	55	10	38	-	-	7	-	-
1998 ^* 1997 NFL season	WR	82*	86	-	79	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	46	40	46	-	-	-	-	-
1999 1998 NFL season	WR	82*	82	78	82	62	-	-	24	-	80	-	-	-	-	74	67	78	-	-	9	-	-
2000 1999 NFL season	WR	78*	78	75	78	55	-	-	69	-	75	-	-	-	-	69	56	76	-	-	24	-	-
2002 2001 NFL season	WR	80	85	86	85	57	82	89	68	84	84	12	10	10	10	75	-	85	33	30	14	16	18

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 Wide Receivers who played alongside Michael Westbrook

Randy Moss

Madden NFL 1999-2013 - 49ers

Marvin Harrison

Madden NFL 1997-2010 - FREEAGENT

Terrell Owens

Madden NFL 1997-2010 - Bills

Herman Moore

Madden NFL 1992-2003 - Giants

Torry Holt

Madden NFL 2000-2011 - Patriots

Madden NFL 2002-2015 - Colts

#1	Albert Hayneswort DT Tennessee	99
#2	Champ Bailey CB Georgia	98
#3	LaVar Arrington LB Penn St.	98
#4	Chris Cooley TE Utah St.	98
#5	Chris Samuels LT Alabama	96
#6	Clinton Portis RB Miami (FL)	95
#7	Sean Taylor FS Miami (FL)	95
#8	Trent Williams OL Oklahoma	95

Michael Westbrook Madden Ratings by Year

Michael Westbrook Madden NFL 1996 rating: 82 OVR (1995 NFL season, WSH). Michael Westbrook Madden NFL 1997 rating: 40 OVR (1996 NFL season, WSH). Michael Westbrook Madden NFL 1998 rating: 82 OVR (1997 NFL season, WSH). Michael Westbrook Madden NFL 1999 rating: 82 OVR (1998 NFL season, WSH). Michael Westbrook Madden NFL 2000 rating: 78 OVR (1999 NFL season, WSH). Michael Westbrook Madden NFL 2002 rating: 80 OVR (2001 NFL season, WSH).