Ron Rice Madden Career 1997-2002 - Peak 78 OVR
Ron Rice Madden NFL 2002 rating

Ron Rice Madden Career 1997-2002 - Peak 78 OVR

Position
SS
Team
Height
6'1"
Weight
216
College
Eastern Michigan
DOB
Nov 9, 1972
Madden
1996-2001
78OVR
2001 Current
78OVR
Peak 2001
5
Seasons Played

Ron Rice Madden Career Milestones

  • Peak rating: 78 OVR in Madden NFL 2002 (age 28)
  • Appeared in 5 Madden releases (Madden NFL 1997 through Madden NFL 2002)
  • Entered at 29 OVR in Madden NFL 1997, climbed 49 points to his peak
  • Biggest single-year rise: 44 points into Madden NFL 1998
  • Played for the Lions across every Madden release in his career
  • Listed as a defensive back in every Madden release
  • Final Madden appearance: Madden NFL 2002 at 78 OVR

Ron Rice 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 STR JMP STA INJ TGH AWR THP TAS TAM TAD CAR BTK CTH RBK PBK TAK KPW KAC
1997
1996 NFL season
Lions DB 29 79 78 79 - 52 68 - - 58 - - - - 25 29 37 - - 49 - -
1998 *
1997 NFL season
Lions SS 73* 73 - 73 - - - - - - - - - - - - 33 - - 33 - -
1999
1998 NFL season
Lions SS 77* 78 76 76 59 - - 9 - 74 - - - - 22 19 9 - - 71 - -
2000
1999 NFL season
Lions SS 76* 76 71 76 53 - - 74 - 69 - - - - 44 32 49 - - 67 - -
2002
2001 NFL season
Lions SS 78 80 80 80 58 71 85 80 84 80 26 17 17 17 36 - 54 17 21 81 24 22
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.

Ron Rice Madden Ratings by Year

Ron Rice Madden NFL 1997 rating: 29 OVR (1996 NFL season, DET). Ron Rice Madden NFL 1998 rating: 73 OVR (1997 NFL season, DET). Ron Rice Madden NFL 1999 rating: 77 OVR (1998 NFL season, DET). Ron Rice Madden NFL 2000 rating: 76 OVR (1999 NFL season, DET). Ron Rice Madden NFL 2002 rating: 78 OVR (2001 NFL season, DET).