Dan Bailey Madden Career 2013-2021 - Peak 93 OVR

Dan Bailey won the Lou Groza Award at Oklahoma State as the best kicker in college football, then went undrafted in 2011 and beat out a veteran for the Cowboys job as a rookie. What followed was one of the most accurate stretches any kicker has ever put together, a career field-goal percentage that, for a time, made him the most accurate kicker in NFL history among those with a real workload.

The Madden card climbed with the automatic consistency. He opened at an 80, rose through the 80s, and hit a 93 peak in Madden NFL 16 during the heart of his Cowboys run, a Pro Bowl and second-team All-Pro 2015 in which he made better than 93 percent of his kicks. For a specialist, that is elite territory, the number reflecting a kicker who simply did not miss from anywhere inside his range.

Dallas surprisingly released him in 2018 in a numbers move, and he signed with Minnesota, where the accuracy dipped and the card came down into the 70s, a normal late-career fade. He remains the Cowboys' all-time leader in field goals made, a remarkable run for an undrafted kicker. His climb to a 93 is the fair reward for a stretch of accuracy that ranks among the best the position has seen.