{"id":249375,"date":"2025-07-31T01:03:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T01:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/249375\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T01:03:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T01:03:08","slug":"patriots-rookie-gets-top-10-rating-in-madden-nfl-26-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/249375\/","title":{"rendered":"Patriots rookie gets top-10 rating in Madden NFL 26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/new-england-patriots\/348\" data-autotag=\"04de4087-8f54-4765-a468-9b4c74f7fb14\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">New England Patriots<\/a> rookie offensive tackle Will Campbell has landed in the top 10 of EA&#8217;s Madden NFL 26 rookie rankings. Campbell came in at the fifth spot, sporting an overall rating of 79.<\/p>\n<p>Rounding out the top five were <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/cleveland-browns\/329\" data-autotag=\"9cb205d1-d46a-4c2c-a80a-90061986bc20\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Cleveland Browns<\/a> defensive tackle Mason Graham, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/new-york-giants\/351\" data-autotag=\"9402befb-12da-4b26-905a-81ab1fea0850\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">New York Giants<\/a> edge rusher Abdul Carter, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/las-vegas-raiders\/341\" data-autotag=\"ce712068-67db-47b5-b6da-5d6ec8fefe0f\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Las Vegas Raiders<\/a> running back Ashton Jeanty and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/jacksonville-jaguars\/365\" data-autotag=\"0e187629-debe-49e8-9e02-83bd36ad3fcc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jacksonville Jaguars<\/a> wide receiver Travis Hunter.<\/p>\n<p>Hunter was the highest-rated out of all the rookies with a rating of 84.<\/p>\n<p>These rookie ratings should excite Patriots fans considering Campbell could be a cornerstone left tackle for years to come. Video game ratings are not the be-all and end-all, of course, but they can tell you the expected returns on a player.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully, Campbell helps solidify the offensive line and serves as a key piece for the Patriots this year. Protecting the quarterback&#8217;s blindside was something the team struggled to do last season, and it would be a major disappointment if it&#8217;s more of the same in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Follow Patriots Wire on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Patriots_Wire?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PatriotsWire\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New England Patriots rookie offensive tackle Will Campbell has landed in the top 10 of EA&#8217;s Madden NFL&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249376,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[247,265,86,85,54,207,7,774,519,20842,123,212,125,213,523,393,773,778,248,267,206,249,56,88,6,35196,245,537,208,530,525,9,779,266,2015,128,524,225],"class_list":{"0":"post-249375","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-american","9":"tag-american-football","10":"tag-browns","11":"tag-cleveland","12":"tag-cleveland-browns","13":"tag-england","14":"tag-football","15":"tag-games","16":"tag-giants","17":"tag-hub","18":"tag-hunter","19":"tag-jacksonville","20":"tag-jacksonville-jaguars","21":"tag-jaguars","22":"tag-las","23":"tag-las-vegas-raiders","24":"tag-madden","25":"tag-madden-nfl","26":"tag-national","27":"tag-national-sports","28":"tag-new","29":"tag-new-england-patriots","30":"tag-new-york-giants","31":"tag-news","32":"tag-nfl","33":"tag-nfl-hub","34":"tag-overall","35":"tag-overall-positive","36":"tag-patriots","37":"tag-positive","38":"tag-raiders","39":"tag-sports","40":"tag-sports-games","41":"tag-sports-news","42":"tag-travis","43":"tag-travis-hunter","44":"tag-vegas","45":"tag-york"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114945157269815324","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249375","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=249375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}