David Buehler Madden Career 2011-2012 - Peak 68 OVR

David Buehler was drafted for his leg, a fifth-round pick out of USC in 2009 and the first kicker taken that year, a specialist so powerful he began his career doing nothing but kickoffs, setting a franchise record with 29 touchbacks as a rookie. The power was never the question, only the accuracy.

The Madden card captures that split perfectly. His peak, a 68 in Madden NFL 11, was built on a 96 kick-power rating next to a much shakier accuracy number, the exact profile of a big-legged kicker who could boom it but not always split the uprights. He won the full-time placekicking job in 2010 and made about 75 percent of his field goals, decent but not the automatic precision the job demands.

Inconsistency and a groin injury pushed him back to kickoff duty in 2011, and Dallas moved on after that, a brief Giants stint closing things out. Buehler is the classic strong-legged kicker who could not quite pair the power with the accuracy, a specialist whose one elite trait was not enough. The 68 peak, all power and modest precision, is the fair read on a leg that was more impressive than reliable.