Kevin Zeitler Madden Career 2013-2026 - Peak 91 OVR

Zeitler played 214 games and started 213 of them, a durability record that borders on absurd. During his two Cleveland seasons he started all 32 games and took every offensive snap. Yet the honors came late: his first Pro Bowl did not arrive until after the 2024 season, his thirteenth in the league.

The Bengals drafted him 27th overall out of Wisconsin in 2012, and a consensus All-American translated cleanly into a steady pro. In 2017 he cashed in with a five-year, $60 million deal that briefly made him the highest-paid guard in football, then kept the value coming as he moved from Cincinnati to Cleveland, New York, Baltimore, Detroit and finally Tennessee, plugging holes on line after line.

His Madden card is a study in consistency. After a 75 as a 2012 rookie, he settles into the mid-to-high 80s and essentially stays there for a decade, rarely dipping and rarely spiking. Fittingly, the number finally reaches its high of 91 in the 2025 edition, the reward for a Pro Bowl earned in his thirties by a lineman who never missed and never made noise.