Madden 2011 Ratings Released

Some news for this weekend. Team ratings, as well as some drafted players' ratings, have been released. Not much more substance, beyond discussion:

NFL Ratings here

Notably:

#1 New Orleans Saints - 92

#2 Indianapolis Colts - 91

#3 Baltimore Ravens - 90

#4 New York Jets - 89

#8 New England Patriots - 86

#16 Miami Dolphins - 79

#31 Buffalo Bills - 67

The Patriots dropped 2 points from last season, most likely due to not having a player emerge at the RDE position Richard Seymour left vacant. Also, I'm assuming Randy Moss dropped in points. In addition, I believe that our lack of a strong OLB opposite of Tully Banta-Cain hurts the team rating.

Individual Draftees after the jump!

Here's a .pdf file containing the first 5 rounds of draftees:

#27 CB Devin McCourty: 74

Compared with:

#7 CB Joe Haden: 79

#20 CB Kareem Jackson: 70

#29 CB Kyle Wilson: 76

#42 TE Rob Gronkowski: 77

Compared with:

#21 TE Jermaine Gresham: 78

#53 OLB Jermaine Cunningham: 53

Compared with:

#43 OLB Sergio Kindle: 78

#52 OLB Jason Worilds: 63

#54 DE Carlos Dunlap: 74

#62 ILB Brandon Spikes: 72

Compared with:

#8 ILB Rolando McClain: 79

#55 ILB Sean Lee: 69

#90 WR Taylor Price: 55

Compared with:

#77 WR Damian Williams: 74

#78 WR Brandon LaFell: 71

#87 WR Eric Decker: 66

So what does this mean? Nothing at all. Just something fun to look at, discuss and share our outrage at how Devin McCourty wasn't rated higher than Kyle Wilson.