| 17 February 2011
I'm fairly sure no player that received a 99 overall rating one year was the cover athlete the next. Rodgers is the overwhelming favorite, in part because he won the Super Bowl and that's been the trend recently.
In other 99 notes: Nnamdi Asomugha, who will be a free agent, dropped to a 98 overall. He will remain on the Oakland Raiders until the next game comes out. Pittsburgh's James Harrison also lost his 99 overall rating, going to a 98.
Here's more from EA Sports:
We've finally reached the end of the 2010 NFL season. We have new Super Bowl champions in the Green Bay Packers and the next big event on the NFL calendar is the 2011 NFL Draft in April. This week we focused on getting the Super Bowl teams and their IR players off the injured reserve and back on to the team's depth charts. We also spent some extra time getting as many practice squad players on the rosters or free agency list as possible. And finally, player ratings for all positions were tweaked in a way to try and reflect where we are heading into the 2011 NFL season. Here are a few of the highlights for this week:
- Super Bowl XLV MVP Aaron Rodgers has reached 99 Overall! Safe to say Aaron Rodgers has arrived.
- Over 320+ transactions, rating adjustments and depth chart moves are updated in this pre-Super Bowl roster update.
- From the "Did You Know" department....To finish up Madden NFL 11, we have had nearly 5000+ total roster moves this year in over 20 weekly roster updates
