Cooper Rush Madden Career 2019-2026 - Peak 68 OVR

Cooper Rush started forty-nine straight games at Central Michigan and still went undrafted in 2017, catching on with Dallas and settling into the least glamorous important job in football, reliable backup quarterback. For years he held a clipboard behind Dak Prescott and did the one thing a backup is paid to do, be ready, and when the calls came he answered them better than anyone expected.

The Madden card treats him like what he is, and there is no shame in it. He spent most of his career in the 50s and low 60s, a backup's grade, peaking at a 68 in Madden NFL 26 without ever pretending to be a starter. The number never spiked the way his results sometimes did, because Madden rates the arm and the ceiling, not the poise, and Rush's whole value was the poise, the steadiness of a man who did not lose the games he was handed.

The proof is in the fill-in work, a 4-1 run as a spot starter in 2022 when Prescott's thumb went, a stretch of wins that kept a season alive, then eight more starts in 2024 before he signed with Baltimore. He finished with a winning record as a starter, remarkable for a man nobody drafted. His modest card is a reminder that some of what wins football games never shows up in a rating.