{"id":179503,"date":"2025-07-04T00:10:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T00:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/179503\/"},"modified":"2025-07-04T00:10:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T00:10:12","slug":"3-sun-devils-inside-top-100-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/179503\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Sun Devils inside top-100 players"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arizona State is ranked 14th overall among teams in the EA Sports College Football 26 video game, including fourth on offense.<\/p>\n<p>Texas, Penn State, Ohio State and ASU all have <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/EASPORTSCollege\/status\/1938658729706094640\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">offenses with a 91 rating<\/a>. No other team has at least 90. The Sun Devil defense is just inside the top 25 at No. 23 with an 84 rating.<\/p>\n<p>ASU has three players ranked inside the top 100 nationally, with wide receiver Jordyn Tyson sitting at the top of the trio.<\/p>\n<p>Tyson was given a 94 rating for the game\u2019s debut, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ea.com\/games\/ea-sports-college-football\/ratings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">ranking third among receivers and tied for seventh overall<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Quarterback Sam Leavitt, who is a <a href=\"https:\/\/arizonasports.com\/ncaa\/arizona-state-football\/ea-sports-college-26-cover\/3585211\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">cover athlete on the game\u2019s deluxe edition<\/a> along with coach Kenny Dillingham, and safety Xavion Alford both were rated 91.<\/p>\n<p>Tyson saw the biggest jump in rating from the game\u2019s previous iteration, which had the receiver at 73 overall at its unveiling. It slotted him behind teammates Melquan Stovall and Xavier Guillory, who were given a 74 rating.<\/p>\n<p>Leavitt reached 91 with a jump from 76, while Alford had the second-highest rating in last year\u2019s game among Sun Devils returning this fall at 80.<\/p>\n<p>Running back Kanye Udoh is ASU\u2019s top-rated newcomer with an 88 ranking. The junior transferred from Army.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The ratings are in \ud83c\udfae\ud83d\udcc8<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ForksUp?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">#ForksUp<\/a> \/\/\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CFB26?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">#CFB26<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BOlk3Whk5Y\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/BOlk3Whk5Y<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sun Devil Football (@ASUFootball) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ASUFootball\/status\/1940890813489414561?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">July 3, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Where Tyson, Leavitt and Alford rank in their positions in College Football 26<\/p>\n<p>Among wide receivers, Tyson is behind only Ohio State\u2019s Jeremiah Smith (98) and Alabama\u2019s Ryan Williams (95), who both had magical seasons as true freshmen in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Leavitt was behind three signal callers, all of whom were one point ahead at 92. That trio is Penn State\u2019s Drew Allar, Clemson\u2019s Cade Klubnik and LSU\u2019s Garrett Nussmeier.<\/p>\n<p>Alford was sixth among safeties. Ohio State\u2019s Caleb Downs (96), Dillon Thieneman (93) of Oregon and a trio of Michigan\u2019s Rod Moore, TCU\u2019s Bud Clark and Duke\u2019s Terry Moore tied at 92 rounded out those ahead.<\/p>\n<p>The game is scheduled to drop on July 10. Those who pre-order will have access three days early.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arizonasports.com\/arizona-sports-newsletter-signup\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-perfmatters-preload=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/AZSportsEmail-830x100-1.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"mobile-signup\"\/>\t&#13;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/AZSportsEmail-830x100-1.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"desktop-signup\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arizona State is ranked 14th overall among teams in the EA Sports College Football 26 video game, including&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179504,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[1632,7,1631,49,48,1630],"class_list":{"0":"post-179503","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-arizona-sports-now-on-98-7-fm","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-home","11":"tag-ncaa","12":"tag-ncaa-football","13":"tag-phoenix-arizona-sports-news-phoenix-breaking-sports-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114792066304681499","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}