Mac Jones Madden Career 2022-2026 - Peak 78 OVR

Mac Jones won a national title at Alabama and set an NCAA record for completion percentage, then went 15th overall to New England in 2021 and made the Pro Bowl as a rookie, looking like the Patriots' quarterback of the future. It did not hold. His play slipped, the benchings came, and within three years he had gone from franchise hope to trade bait.

Madden's grade traced the fall. Jones peaked at a 78 for his 2022 season, then slid to a 74, a 69 after a trade to Jacksonville, and a 69 again as he landed in San Francisco in 2025 as Brock Purdy's backup. The number tracked a career that started high and drifted downward, from promising starter to capable veteran reserve.

In San Francisco he found a useful second act. When Purdy went down with injuries in 2025, Jones stepped in and played some of the best football of his career in relief, throwing far more touchdowns than interceptions and keeping the 49ers afloat. He is no longer the quarterback of anyone's future, but he proved a valuable insurance policy, the rare former first-rounder who accepted a backup role and thrived in it. Madden's grade, a 78 down to a 69, is the honest arc of a career that redefined itself as a supporting one.