Clay Shiver Madden Career 1997-1999 - Peak 82 OVR

Clay Shiver was born on December 7, 1972 in Tifton, Georgia, and played center at Florida State, snapping for the 1993 national championship team. He won the Jacobs Blocking Trophy in 1994 and 1995, was a three-time first-team All-ACC selection, and was a consensus All-American in 1995. The Dallas Cowboys drafted him in the third round of the 1996 draft, 67th overall.

He backed up Ray Donaldson as a rookie and played 14 games, and Madden NFL 97 listed him at 65 for the 1996 season. He replaced Donaldson in 1997 and started all 16 games, the only Dallas lineman to start every game at one position. Madden NFL 98 gave him a calculated 59 for that 1997 season.

He started the first nine games of 1998 before a turf toe injury cost him the job to Mike Kiselak, and Madden NFL 99 gave him a calculated 82 for the 1998 season, a year in which he played 14 games. He signed with Denver in 1999 and was waived before the season, then signed with Carolina that December without appearing in a regular-season game, and the Panthers released him in August 2000. He was inducted into the Florida State Athletics Hall of Fame in 2001, and finished with 44 NFL games and 25 starts.