Sam Williams DE - Cowboys Madden Career 2023-2026 - Peak 76 OVR

Sam Williams took the junior-college road to Ole Miss, where he set the school's single-season sack record with 12.5 and made first-team All-SEC, a burst-off-the-edge rusher the Cowboys took in the second round in 2022. He landed on a defense already stocked with Micah Parsons and DeMarcus Lawrence, which meant learning the trade in a rotation rather than a starting role.

The Madden card tracked a young rusher on the rise. He opened at a 68, flashed enough to climb, four sacks as a rookie and 4.5 in his second year, the grade edging up toward a 76 peak in Madden NFL 26 as he worked up the depth chart. Then the interruption, a torn ACL with a partial MCL in training camp that erased his entire 2024, the number carrying the stall of a promising rusher who lost a full year of development to a knee.

He came back in 2025 to a rotational role, re-signing with Dallas on a one-year deal, the explosion still there when healthy if not yet the every-down consistency the second-round pick was chasing. Williams is a talented edge rusher whose career keeps getting measured in flashes, and whose card climbed on potential through an injury that cost him the season he needed most. The 68-to-76 arc is a rusher still trying to put a full year together.