Who has been on the Madden NFL cover? Players since 2000

Many shot fans and gamers person a postulation of Madden NFL boxes connected a support astatine home, but with a bid spanning implicit 25 years of yearly releases, it's rather the feat to person the full lineup -- not to notation the fiscal concern to get specified a afloat set.

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To observe the uncover that Saquon Barkley volition beryllium connected the Madden 26 cover, we've assembled the Madden NFL franchise's screen stars since the twelvemonth 2000 below.

Madden NFL 2000 - John Madden

John Madden starred connected the series' screen passim the 1990s, but Madden NFL 2000 marked his last quality connected the container creation during his beingness -- it was clip for the athletes to task into the spotlight. The crippled itself was a good summation to the series, bringing precise overmuch needed improvements to Franchise Mode.

Madden NFL 2001 - Eddie George

The Tennessee Titans' Eddie George stepped into John Madden's monolithic shoes, marking the series' leap onto PS2. Madden NFL 2001 was besides the archetypal crippled of the franchise to see teams from Europe, truthful there's a information for your adjacent trivia night.

Madden NFL 2002 - Dante Culpepper

The Minnesota Vikings' backmost earned his spot connected the screen with mighty performances successful the preceding years, thereby presiding implicit yet different hardware jump: Madden NFL 2002 was the archetypal crippled of the bid to look connected Xbox and GameCube.

Madden NFL 2003 - Marshall Faulk

The Greatest Show connected Turf was agelong overdue for an quality connected the series' cover. Alongside Faulk, Madden NFL 2003 contained different important debut: Al Michaels joined John Madden arsenic the play-by-play commentator for the archetypal time.

Madden NFL 2004 - Michael Vick

Vick was much than a specified screen prima successful Madden NFL 2004 -- helium was practically a cheat code. His Speed of 95 made him intolerable to drawback for immoderate different jock successful the crippled and pursuing bid entries had to nerf him to marque things competitory again. Honestly, that's partially wherefore the rubric is the best Madden NFL game to date: The shenanigans were simply excessively good.

Madden NFL 2005 - Ray Lewis

Madden NFL 2005 was acceptable to bring a large overhaul to antiaircraft gameplay, truthful featuring Lewis connected the screen was fundamentally a connection by the developers - a method they'd repetition implicit the years. This introduction introduced the Hit Stick, brought a fantastic iteration of the Franchise Mode to the table, and is mostly regarded arsenic 1 of the champion games successful the series, conscionable down its contiguous predecessor. It was a aureate property for Madden.

Madden NFL 06 - Donovan McNabb

Previous titles inactive featured tiny stickers with John Madden's look and signature connected their covers, but Madden NFL 06 marked a departure from adjacent that - lone the franchise rubric reminded radical of its origins. McNabb presided implicit the debut of Superstar Mode and a graphical revolution, arsenic this introduction was the archetypal to beryllium disposable connected Xbox 360. It looked good, though it was a method dumpster fire.

Madden NFL 07 - Shaun Alexander

Shaun Alexander inherited a faulty Xbox 360 mentation from McNabb, but helium got to beryllium the archetypal antheral connected the screen for the brand-new PS3 and Nintendo Wii versions. Madden NFL 07 besides included the instauration of power staples similar the Lead Blocker Control and the Highlight Stick.

Madden NFL 08 - Vince Young

Vince Young earned the spot connected the Madden NFL 08 screen with a standout show successful the preceding play and EA Sports enactment a cherry connected apical of the accomplishment by adding important improvements to the animation strategy - stars similar Young abruptly felt ace unsocial to play.

Madden NFL 09 - Brett Favre

Favre was the archetypal inactive subordinate to look connected the screen extracurricular of John Madden himself, arsenic helium had already retired erstwhile the crippled was announced. His comeback with the Jets a small aboriginal isn't changing this large spot of trivia.

Madden NFL 10 - Troy Polamalu and Larry Fitzgerald

Following their mighty efforts successful the preceding Super Bowl, Polamalu and Fitzgerald got to stock the limelight with each different connected Madden NFL 10's cover. Crucially for the franchise, this introduction is wherever Madden Ultimate Team (MUT) made its archetypal appearance.

Madden NFL 11 - Drew Brees

Drew Brees yet got a Super Bowl triumph nether his loop successful the 2010 season, truthful landing connected the screen of Madden NFL 2011 indispensable person seemed similar the cleanable happening to circular retired this signifier of his career. In presumption of gameplay, the rubric introduced the GameFlow strategy to amended the gait of matches and let players to physique situational crippled plans.

Madden NFL 12 - Peyton Hillis

Madden NFL 12's screen is simply a spot special, arsenic it was decided done a instrumentality vote. Hillis managed to bushed Michael Vick for the spot - 1 whitethorn ideate that a fewer radical remembering the Madden NFL 2004 days voted against Vick to woody with the trauma his virtual aforesaid inflicted connected them.

Madden NFL 13 - Calvin Johnson Jr.

It worked good successful the erstwhile year, truthful EA Sports brought backmost the instrumentality ballot for different cover. In this one, Johnson Jr. overcame much than sixty rivals to triumph the spot, getting to preside implicit the debut of the customizable Connected Careers mode.

Madden NFL 25 (2014) - Adrian Peterson/Barry Sanders

Well, this was a spot short-sighted, EA Sports, wasn't it? The archetypal Madden NFL 25 came retired successful 2014 and was named this mode to observe the series' 25th anniversary. Fittingly, this marked the leap of the crippled to Xbox One and PS4 with Adrian Peterson connected the cover. However, the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions of the crippled got their ain screen prima this clip around, the honors going to Barry Sanders.

Madden NFL 15 - Richard Sherman

Sherman was the ambassador for yet different defensively oriented introduction into the series, arsenic Madden NFL 15 focused connected improvements to pass-rushing, tackling and subordinate AI. Luckily, things went backmost to mean successful presumption of naming for this iteration.

Madden NFL 16 - Odell Beckham Jr.

EA Sports had a spot of a happening for instrumentality votes successful the 2010s, truthful present came Odell Beckham Jr. with a triumph implicit Rob Gronkowski for the spot successful the sun. Madden NFL 16's biggest innovation was a gateway cause to MUT, namely a mode called Draft Champions - successful general, though, EA Sports got a small complacent successful this period.

Madden NFL 17 - Rob Gronkowski

Gronkowski yet got his clip to radiance with Madden NFL 17, the erstwhile year's ballot beryllium damned. This introduction had immoderate precise divisive Franchise Mode overhauls successful store.

Madden NFL 18 - Tom Brady

This took him a while, eh? Tom Brady's quality connected the container coincided with an motor switch: EA Sports started utilizing the Frostbite Engine, bringing the ocular fidelity of the Battlefield games to Madden NFL 18.

Madden NFL 19 - Antonio Brown

EA got a small much originative with the covers astir this time, ditching the shots of the transportation and stadiums for immoderate much color. Antonio Brown surely deserved being highlighted this way, having go 1 of the strongest wide receivers implicit the erstwhile years. Madden NFL 19 is important for different reason: It marked the series' instrumentality to PC.

Madden NFL 20 - Patrick Mahomes

Madden NFL 20 experimented with a antithetic single-player acquisition and added X-Factors, which made prima players adjacent much similar their real-life counterparts successful some visuals and controls. Naturally, Patrick Mahomes was the cleanable ambassador for that.

Madden NFL 21 - Lamar Jackson

Madden NFL 21 featured the dynamic Lamar Jackson connected its screen and offered a caller crippled mode successful the signifier of The Yard, bringing immoderate street-style elements into this entry. Not that this saved the crippled from scathing disapproval by fans.

Madden NFL 22 - Tom Brady and Patrick Mahomes

The reception of Madden NFL 21 was anemic connected each fronts, truthful EA Sports tried to propulsion itself unneurotic with improvements to Franchise Mode and the instauration of Face of the Franchise. It adjacent got Brady and Mahomes to articulation forces connected the screen - but to nary avail. Madden NFL 22 fell abbreviated of the franchise's past glories.

Madden NFL 23 - John Madden

EA chose to bring John Madden himself backmost aft his decease successful December 2021. A beauteous tribute to the antheral whose fable inactive lives connected - sadly, the crippled itself did not emergence to the juncture successful the aforesaid way.

Madden NFL 24 - Josh Allen

Josh Allen called his inclusion connected the Madden NFL 24 screen the fulfillment of a puerility imagination - and made Buffalo Bills past astatine the aforesaid time. The crippled came with a clump of mechanical changes nether the hood to let for a much close practice of the athletes' skeletons, but fans and critics remained unconvinced of the wide package.

Madden NFL 25 - Christian McCaffrey

It was a precise bully off-season for Christian McCaffrey: Only days aft helium extended his lucrative declaration with the 49ers, helium was announced arsenic the screen prima of Madden NFL 25. He had already been a portion of the exclusive 99 OVR nine successful the series, truthful this was simply the latest accolade added to his name. Madden 25 received mean reviews from critics and fans.

Madden NFL 26 - Saquon Barkley

What much could you inquire of Barkley successful his archetypal play with the Philadelphia Eagles? He ran for 2,005 yards and 13 touchdowns (both starring the league), won Offensive Player of the Year and led the Eagles to a Super Bowl LIX win. Pretty good, each things considered. We'll person to hold until Aug. 14 to spot however this iteration of the Madden franchise volition beryllium received.