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Madden 23 Saints Ratings: Top Players, Bottom Players, and Snubs

Sometimes you can't help but wonder what the popular football game franchise sees when they piece together ratings.

John Hendrix

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All the Madden 23 ratings are out now, and the game will officially be out on Friday, Aug. 22. We've been looking through the various Saints players and how they stacked up, and a lot of them have been a bit surprising. You can check out the full team and player ratings on the Madden website, but we're going to give you some highlights and lowlights from this year.

Top 5 Players

  1. Tyrann Mathieu - 94 
  2. Demario Davis - 93
  3. Cam Jordan - 91
  4. Marshon Lattimore - 91
  5. Alvin Kamara and Michael Thomas - 90

Bottom 5 Players

  1. Zach Wood - 25
  2. Ethan Greenidge - 54
  3. Landon Young - 59
  4. Jerald Hawkins - 59
  5. Ian Book - 59

TEAM RATINGS: The Saints came in at 82 overall, tied with the Colts and Titans. 16 teams were rated higher than them. The offense is ranked 77, which you could imagine is towards the bottom of the scale, while the special teams came in at 78 (12th). The defense came in at 84 overall (T-9th).

SUPERSTARS: Michael Thomas, Demario Davis, Marshon Lattimore, and Ryan Ramczyk (89) are all included as the Superstars for the team. Davis was the second-highest ranked linebacker in the game.

Alvin Kamara - Superstar X-Factor in Madden 23
Alvin Kamara - Superstar X-Factor in Madden 23 / Madden 23

X-FACTORS: Alvin Kamara (Satelite), Cam Jordan (Unstoppable Force), and Tyrann Mathieu (Reinforcement) make up this year's list of X-Factors. Mathieu came in as the top-rated safety in the game.

PLAYER SNUBS AND HEAD-SCRATCHERS: We talked about C.J. Gardner-Johnson previously, especially being that he took offense to his 82 overall rating. Alvin Kamara was ranked fairly low compared to someone like Christian McCaffrey (96), who played in just 7 games last season and has been in 10 during the past two years. 

Other players who feel like they could have been or should have been rated higher would include Jameis Winston (76), Erik McCoy (79), Jarvis Landry (83), Marcus Davenport (82), Wil Lutz (78), Blake Gillikin (77), and Paulson Adebo (74).

Naturally, these lead to some fun debates, but it sounds like Madden 23 players who choose the Saints will have some work to do. Between these ratings and the NFL's Top 100, every year produces controversy.

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JOHN HENDRIX

I officially started covering the New Orleans Saints & other NFL topics in 2011. My work has been featured on various outlets over the years. I worked closely with Skyhorse Publishing in Fall 2018 to update the book, Tales From the New Orleans Saints Sidelines, which filled in all Saints material from the 2013-2017 seasons. Prior to joining Saints News Network, I served as the Managing Editor of SB Nation's Canal Street Chronicles for 3.5 years, and before that with FanSided's Who Dat Dish as the Managing Editor for several years. I have also had experiences of being a freelance Saints reporter for The Sun Herald in Biloxi, MS and a contributing writer for WDSU, a local NBC TV station in New Orleans. I have appeared on a vast amount of TV and Radio shows, both nationally and locally. For tips, comments, or suggestions, please contact me at johnhendrix@saintsnews.net