Brandon Weeden Madden Career 2013-2019 - Peak 76 OVR

Brandon Weeden took the longest road to the NFL. The Yankees drafted him in the second round as a pitcher, and he spent years in the minors before injuries pushed him back to football at Oklahoma State, where he threw for nearly 5,000 yards as a senior. Cleveland took him in the first round in 2012 at 28, one of the oldest first-round rookies ever, a curious bet on a live arm.

It did not work in Cleveland, and the Madden card never climbed. It peaked at a 76 in Madden NFL 14 and mostly sat in the low 70s and below, the grade of a backup whose first-round pedigree the play never justified. He signed with Dallas in 2014 and started some games when Tony Romo was hurt, a competent fill-in but nothing more, the number honest about a quarterback who was a reserve at his ceiling.

He bounced to Houston and Tennessee before his career wound down, the arm always intriguing and the results never there. Weeden is a fascinating footnote, a former professional baseball player who reached the first round of the NFL draft and could not stick as a starter. The flat low-70s card is the honest read on a big arm and an unusual story that never became production.