Every PML Starting Quarterback’s True Overall

Madden is a weird game when it comes to ratings. Between awareness and archetypes and other useless stats like break sack, players overalls in the game are very skewed from how there attributes are and how they most often play. I decided to take the core 7 stats that truly matter from all 32 PML starting QBs and see who goes up and who goes down.

Formula: (Throw Power + SAC + MAC + DAC + TOR + TUP + PAC)/7

This gives a more accurate rating of the player’s abilities and we can see who is benefitting from high awareness or other useless attributes

Note: I thought about including speed and other attributes related to running, but even though it is a physical stat like throw power, it doesn’t impact their ability as a quarterback. Speed is nice to have, but is more of a preference that doesn’t actually matter if they can throw well enough.

The Adjusted Movement

Most of the quarterbacks go up in overall, some slightly and some a good chunk, but this is just a result of high throw powers on quarterbacks rated lower as the high overall quarterbacks in game are still the highest overalls, but they move down slightly or stay neutral because their throw power matches or is lower than their overall. These movements are also based on rounded overalls, up or down to the nearest whole number.

Lamar Jackson: -2

Patrick Mahomes: -1

Josh Allen: -1

Joe Burrow: -1

Justin Herbert: +1

Dak Prescott: +2

Tom Brady: +2

Deshaun Watson: +4

Russell Wilson: +5

CJ Stroud: +4

Anthony Richardson: +2

Kyler Murray: +4

Matthew Stafford: +4

Daniel Jones: +6

Devin Leary: +4

Caleb Williams: +8

Bryce Young: +6

Justin Fields: +6

Trevor Lawrence: +7

Desmond Ridder: +8

Zach Wilson: +8

Jameis Winston: +8

Quinn Ewers: +10

Drake Maye: +6

Sam Howell: +8

Malik Willis: +8

Trey Lance: +10

Hendon Hooker: +9

Jordan Love: +10

Jayden Daniels: +9

Dorian T Robinson: +10

Tyree Jackson: +10

Conclusion

The lower overall the quarterback is in game, the more he goes up in adjusted overall, but aside from some small outliers, the order of highest overall to lowest stays pretty similar to what is in game. Like I said in the beginning, that’s a product of including throw power which is generally higher than players overalls and when you’re taking into account way lower rated players, even an average throw power boosts them. It is an essential throwing attribute though, so I won’t redo it without that. I’ll paste the whole spreadsheet below so you can see what stats influenced certain players. This “experiment” stemmed from me thinking Quinn Ewers’s attributes were so much better than that of a 77 overall and seeing how he had 67 awareness and 73 break sack, this felt like a good idea. I was proved right as Ewers improvement to his adjusted overall was tied for the highest while starting at the highest base overall of all quarterbacks who improved +10 like him. He moved to tied at rounded 87 with Kyler Murray and Daniel Jones and just 0.43 behind Caleb Williams who does have 93 speed and is an X-Factor but still impressive regardless.

Full Spreadsheet and Results

Team	Player	OVR in Game	Throw Power	SAC	MAC	DAC	TOR	TUP	PAC	True OVR	Rounded
Ravens	Lamar Jackson	96	96	97	92	85	95	93	97	93.57142857	94
Chiefs	Patrick Mahomes	96	97	95	94	91	98	95	96	95.14285714	95
Bills	Josh Allen	93	99	90	90	88	95	93	89	92	92
Bengals	Joe Burrow	93	87	98	97	92	91	93	88	92.28571429	92
Chargers	Justin Herbert	90	97	91	88	91	91	88	88	90.57142857	91
Lions	Dak Prescott	88	89	90	88	92	89	93	90	90.14285714	90
Steelers	Tom Brady	87	86	93	88	91	84	84	96	88.85714286	89
Browns	Deshaun Watson	85	94	88	89	87	92	88	86	89.14285714	89
Broncos	Russell Wilson	84	91	86	87	90	91	83	94	88.85714286	89
Seahawks	CJ Stroud	84	92	89	91	87	88	86	83	88	88
Panthers	Anthony Richardson	84	91	82	89	81	92	85	85	86.42857143	86
Cardinals	Kyler Murray	83	89	89	86	87	87	88	84	87.14285714	87
Rams	Matthew Stafford	82	93	86	82	89	86	83	84	86.14285714	86
Giants	Daniel Jones	81	88	85	90	88	85	88	87	87.28571429	87
Dolphins	Devin Leary	81	86	84	85	80	79	99	80	84.71428571	85
Patriots	Caleb Williams	80	93	90	85	85	85	89	86	87.57142857	88
Saints	Bryce Young	80	88	86	87	87	87	89	80	86.28571429	86
Jaguars	Justin Fields	79	94	85	86	82	80	84	83	84.85714286	85
Jets	Trevor Lawrence	79	91	89	84	84	85	87	85	86.42857143	86
Falcons	Desmond Ridder	78	91	84	86	84	85	85	85	85.71428571	86
Vikings	Zach Wilson	78	94	87	84	82	85	85	85	86	86
Texans	Jameis Winston	78	90	88	84	85	87	85	82	85.85714286	86
Colts	Quinn Ewers	77	92	90	87	83	89	86	83	87.14285714	87
Eagles	Drake Maye	77	96	89	78	82	82	77	78	83.14285714	83
Commanders	Sam Howell	77	94	84	84	83	81	86	84	85.14285714	85
Titans	Malik Willis	77	94	80	87	84	83	85	85	85.42857143	85
49ers	Trey Lance	76	90	85	86	85	85	87	85	86.14285714	86
Packers	Hendon Hooker	75	89	86	86	82	86	83	74	83.71428571	84
Bears	Jordan Love	74	92	85	85	77	81	86	85	84.42857143	84
Raiders	Jayden Daniels	72	88	83	80	72	85	83	76	81	81
Buccaneers	Dorian T Robinson	71	90	85	77	76	81	76	79	80.57142857	81
Cowboys	Tyree Jackson	66	92	73	76	73	70	77	71	76	76