LaRon Byrd Madden Career 2014-2016 - Peak 65 OVR

LaRon Byrd was a big receiver out of Miami, six-foot-four, who went undrafted in 2012 and spent his career on the edge of NFL rosters. He caught on with Arizona, bounced to Cleveland and Dallas among others, and mostly lived on practice squads, the size always intriguing enough to keep him around and the production never enough to lock down a job.

The Madden card is about as thin as a card gets. It peaked at a 65 in Madden NFL 16 and sat in the low 60s, the grade of a player with a single career reception across a handful of games, a number that reflects almost no NFL production at all. It is the profile of the perpetual roster bubble, a big body the game rates for its frame rather than any output.

He drifted through a long list of teams, Miami, Atlanta, Washington and Carolina among them, rarely getting a regular-season snap. Byrd is the deep end of the receiver pool, the tall prospect who spends years almost making it, and his thin low-60s card is the honest read on a career spent mostly on the practice squad, forever one cut from the field.