Deuce Vaughn Madden Career 2024-2026 - Peak 70 OVR

Deuce Vaughn was a giant at Kansas State in everything but size, a consensus All-American who ran for more than 1,500 yards in a season despite standing barely five-foot-six, one of the smallest backs ever drafted. His selection came with a moment that made the broadcast, his father Chris Vaughn, a Cowboys scout, phoning in the sixth-round pick to his own son in 2023.

The NFL has been a harder fit than the story, and the Madden card knows it. He opened at a 68 and nudged only to a 70, the grade of a change-of-pace depth back who has struggled to find touches, barely a hundred rushing yards across his first two seasons. The number never climbed because the opportunity never did, the size that made him a curiosity in the draft room making him a tough projection as an every-down runner, and the rating stayed honest to the thin production.

He bounced to Denver and then to the UFL as the NFL touches dried up, a beloved college star trying to hang on at the game's highest level. Vaughn's is a warm story with a hard football ending, the scout's son who got his moment and could not quite turn it into a career. The flat low-70s card is the game's unsentimental read on a player everyone wanted to root for.