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Madden NFL 15 Top 5 Quarterbacks

01:15 PM - July 22, 2014 by Steve_OS

EA Sports has just released the top 5 quarterbacks for Madden NFL 15.

#1 Peyton Manning - 98 Overall
#2 Aaron Rodgers - 98 Overall
#3 Drew Brees - 96 Overall
#4 Russell Wilson - 93 Overall
#5 Tom Brady - 93 Overall

Here is a look at the release date schedule for the remaining ratings.

Mon, July 21 – Top 10 Overall Rookies (Released)
Tues, July 22 – Top 5 Overall QBs (Released)
Wed, July 23 – Top 5 Overall RBs
Thurs, July 24 – Top 5 Overall WRs/Top 5 Overall TEs
Fri, July 25 – Top 5 Overall OL Players
Sat, July 26 – Top 5 Overall DEs
Sun, July 27 – Top 5 Overall DTs
Mon, July 28 – Top 5 Overall LBs
Tues, July 29 – Top 5 Overall CBs
Wed, July 30 – Top 5 Overall Safeties
Thurs, July 31 – Top 5 Overall Special Teams
Fri, Aug 1 – Top 10 Overall Players/Full AFC & NFC North Ratings
Sat, Aug 2 – Full AFC & NFC South Ratings
Sun, Aug 3 – Full AFC & NFC East Ratings
Mon, Aug 4 – Full AFC & NFC West Ratings
Tues, Aug 5 – Ratings Recap

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# 161 HingleMcCringleberry @ 07/24/14 02:03 PM

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Originally Posted by vrtkolman


	Rice barely played last year and Harvin only played in 1 regular season game. Golden Tate was Seattle's top WR last year which says a lot about the lack of receiving options Seattle had to work with. Wilson also didn't really have a receiving threat at tight end as Zach Miller is a blocker at this point of his career. Brady is a better QB than Wilson yeah, but if Brady were on Seattle last year he would have been on IR after week 2. Seattle's offensive line was that bad and their receivers had a really hard time getting separation. I think Wilson's rating is deserved. Wilson pulled a bunch of wins out of his *** by keeping plays alive with his legs. They played a lot of top 10 and even top 5 defenses last year and Wilson still managed to keep his rating above 100. To the comment where he can't carry a team, that's a load of bull. He completed 75% of his passes and had over 300 yards passing against Carolina, had 230 yards and 3 TD's at Arizona, and in maybe the biggest regular season game of the year had over 300 yards and 3 TD's against New Orleans. All three of those teams were top 5 defenses last year (or right around there).

The defense held Carolina to 7 pts, and held the high powered saints offense to 7 points. Oh and the Arizona game the score was 31-13 by the 4th Q. To me that sounds like the team carries itself. Brady, Rodgers, Manning, Romo, Brees, to name a few, have consistently carried depleted teams into the playoffs throughout their careers. Wilson hasn't had to... yet.

I need to see what Wilson does without a top 3 ALL TIME defense before I can make the claim that he is elite. I'm not saying he can't, I'm just saying he hasn't needed to yet.

# 162 CR3AMnCR1MS0N @ 07/24/14 02:36 PM

LOL! Russel Wilson...

Anyway I agree, there should not be 4 QB's ahead of Brady, and I'm a Colts fan.

Manning 98
Rodgers 97
Brady and Brees 96
Rivers 94

That sounds about right to me.

Wilson should be an 89-91, same for my boy Andrew Luck, and I guess Cam Newton also.

# 163 Bootzilla @ 07/24/14 02:40 PM

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Originally Posted by charter04


	I'm not sure if you can make those assessments based on how player A played agains a team versus how player B played against that same team. Every week is different. For example Romo had 506 yards and 5 TDs against that Denver D. That doesn't mean he's better than Brady. So much can change from game to game.

Agreed. Every week is different. And I never said Wilson is better than Brady. That's why I didn't use examples from a week 5 match up like the Tony Romo example. I used the very next game. Same with Manning vs Seattle's defense vs what Kaepernick was able to do against it.

Just trying to show that a certain players' skill set may be more conducive to having success against certain defenses. Where has Brady struggled? Against the Giants and Ravens or any team that could get him off his mark with a pass rush. Primarily a rush in his face. I'm saying vs those types of teams maybe a Russell Wilson is better suited to defeat them because of his mobility/escapability. And it may just be those one or two plays that Wilson is able to keep a drive alive by using his feet or buying that extra second that allows his team to sustain a drive or keep his defense fresh and off of the field that dictates whether or not they win or lose the game.

# 164 Hiro1 @ 07/24/14 04:15 PM

That's my big question. What scheme are these overalls based on? With the introduction of schemes in madden overalls fluctuate from system to system.

# 165 charter04 @ 07/24/14 04:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Hiro1


	That's my big question. What scheme are these overalls based on? With the introduction of schemes in madden overalls fluctuate from system to system.

Overalls aren't affected by scheme in play now. These are base ratings. They only change in CFM. Even then you can look at your depth chart in game and see the real ratings.

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# 166 hoopla32 @ 07/24/14 04:51 PM

Russell Wilson having the same overall rating as Tom Brady is so comical, and so obviously bad that it's not even really worth discussion. Anyone with a brain would agree that it's just embarrassingly facepalm worthy.

Having him rated higher than guys like Rivers and Luck is a slap in the face, too, in my opinion. I'm sure you could make a case for a handful of other QBs to have a higher rating than Wilson, too.

# 167 Hiro1 @ 07/24/14 04:51 PM

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Originally Posted by bucky60


	Then there is the question of whether scheme really means anything as far as production on the field. The 85 that drops to a 75 due to scheme, does there production drop as well? If not, then what good are schemes in CFM? If the production doesn't drop, then it makes it advantageous to get players out of your scheme for the lower contracts. My 70 D.Harris was actually more productive than my 85 Lacey.

By production are you talking CPU simmed games or user games?

Overalls don't affect anything in user played games as far as I know. Overall is more used as a cheat sheet to tell you who's the better player in your system.

If I have my WR scheme set to (deep threat) my faster wr will have a higher overall than my slow wrs. It doesn't make my fast wr better, it's just a visual so I don't have to go through every attribute.

# 168 hanzsomehanz @ 07/24/14 05:00 PM

The audicity to put Wilson on the same rank as Brady has created quite a stir - credit the marketing team for that publicity stunt.

We gotta stop nitpicking this matter for its brainy worth (lol) it dont make sense on paper but it is making cents for them in dollars.

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# 169 vrtkolman @ 07/24/14 07:32 PM

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Originally Posted by HingleMcCringleberry


	The defense held Carolina to 7 pts, and held the high powered saints offense to 7 points. Oh and the Arizona game the score was 31-13 by the 4th Q. To me that sounds like the team carries itself. Brady, Rodgers, Manning, Romo, Brees, to name a few, have consistently carried depleted teams into the playoffs throughout their careers. Wilson hasn't had to... yet. I need to see what Wilson does without a top 3 ALL TIME defense before I can make the claim that he is elite. I'm not saying he can't, I'm just saying he hasn't needed to yet.

You have a point with the Carolina game, but the other two games Wilson put up the stats and points to carry them. He's not in control of what the defense does, just because a score was 34-7 and not 34-28 doesn't mean the team is relying on the defense more than the offense. They both did a tremendous job.

# 170 oneamongthefence @ 07/24/14 09:39 PM

With Russel Wilson, in order to get his overall where many of you think it's should be, without knowing them all obviously, what stats do you lower? Maybe it is an accurate representation of how he is. Do we drop his ratings just so he "fits" in the scheme of how we perceive him compared to Tom Brady. We would be complaining if it was the other way around. We should rate players how they are and not compared to their peers.

# 171 charter04 @ 07/24/14 09:53 PM

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Originally Posted by oneamongthefence


	With Russel Wilson, in order to get his overall where many of you think it's should be, without knowing them all obviously, what stats do you lower? Maybe it is an accurate representation of how he is. Do we drop his ratings just so he "fits" in the scheme of how we perceive him compared to Tom Brady. We would be complaining if it was the other way around. We should rate players how they are and not compared to their peers.

First that 89 deep throw acc is way to high. I watched him enough to need a lot of proof that that's legit. If any of those young guys should be 93 it's Luck. He's a better passer and just as athletic. IMO. Just watch the Colts v Seahawks game from this past year.

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# 172 Hiro1 @ 07/24/14 09:59 PM

For arguments sake. If the list was limited to Mobile Qbs only what would it look like?

# 173 charter04 @ 07/24/14 10:27 PM

I take back what I said about Wilson. I looked up the stat's and he was actually 3rd in the league in Deep Accuracy at 48.3% according to PFF. I'm not sure how 89 compares with others but, hopefully not many will be 90+ unless they did a great job of tuning accuracy so QB's are much less accurate than they used to be.

# 174 William85 @ 07/24/14 11:44 PM

For the record , kudos to everyone for making this debate healthy and not personal. I could do this for hours.

# 175 Armor and Sword @ 07/25/14 12:08 AM

Russell freaking Wilson is a 93? Come on man!!!!!

Sheesh.

# 176 Cavicchi @ 07/25/14 10:03 AM

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Originally Posted by Armor & Sword


	Russell freaking Wilson is a 93? Come on man!!!!! Sheesh.

You're right, he should be higher!

# 177 Dr. Banner @ 07/25/14 08:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Darkwolf90


	Wilson is definitely not a top 5 QB, and no way is he better than Tom Brady. I'm not a Rivers fan ether, but he is more deserving of being a Top 5 QB in Madden and the NFL then Russel Wilson. This just confirms what I'm sure a lot of people are thinking (except for the Bandwagoners of the Seahawks of course) that the Seahawks will be the most overrated team this year. At this point my money is on Richard Sherman being a 99 overall. This is one of the main reason I hate the rating system in Madden, always overrated.... Some might be accurate while others are over inflate or even underrated in the case of a lot of really good players. I just hope CFM doesn't take players who should be rated really well in their Team's scheme and drop them from 80s and 90s down to 60s and 70s or worse.

Lol says the 49ers fan.

# 178 HingleMcCringleberry @ 07/25/14 08:18 PM

^^^

My guess is 75% of non-Seahawks fans would agree with him

# 179 NicVirtue @ 07/26/14 12:11 AM

At the end of the day, none of this matters, as I'm sure the lot of us will be downloading rosters with proper ratings anyway.

# 180 mrprice33 @ 09/22/14 03:01 PM

Small sample size and all that, but through 3 games...http://www.nfl.com/stats/categorysta..._PASSER_RATING

R. Wilson 69% passing on 29 attempts per game, 7.5 YPA 6 td 1 int 108.9 rating

T. Brady 58.8 % passing on 38 attempts per game, 5.5 YPA 3 td 0 int, 82.9 rating

Of players with more than 100 attempts (15 players), Brady has the 3rd-worst completion % (ahead of Jake Locker and Ryan Tannehill), 3rd worst YPA (ahead of Tannehill and Derek Carr), tied for the fewest touchdowns with Matthew Stafford, Carr, and Locker, and has the 5th worst qb rating.

Wilson, btw, has more yards per game despite 9 fewer passes per game than Brady.

So maybe this wasn't so crazy?

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