EA Sports has released their latest Week 4 ratings update in Madden 26. And players are just mad about who got buffed and who was left hanging. The official Madden NFL account tweeted about players who balled out in Week 4, asking who else needs a ratings upgrade, and the opinions just started flying after that.
Right away, the hottest topic erupted about Dak Prescott. The Madden account specifically called him out in their tweet, sparking Players firing each other with arguments on whether or not the upgrade Dak was given was enough. One player, Sir Alec Richard, emphatically declared, “Dak should be 95,” while at least one other player demanded, “No less than 92 for Dak.” The passion runs deep for digital quarterback ratings.
Enter the mess. While Dak has been the center of attention for the Madden Community, other quarterbacks have been ignored. Several commenters commented that Jordan Love of the Packers has been putting up numbers but hasn’t been receiving similar consideration acknowledgment from the ratings team. KingMaverick30 went off: “Love remains the same even though he had more passing and rushing yards and is currently a top 5 QB as well?” I can almost feel his anger through the words.
Then there was the whole awareness rating fiasco. A number of comments took awareness ratings to task for being inaccurate. One user decried Dak’s 88 awareness rating by asking, “If he ain’t a high 90’s in that category who is?” Another pleaded to have Jackson Dart’s awareness bumped to “at least a 75,” claiming it is “hindering his overall.” It’s insane how much that community really cares about these particular attributes.
Not much love for defensive players in these responses either. User Coach Diddy90 requests a speed upgrade for Joshua Williams, having “hawking down Justice Hill who has 90 from about 12 yds.” Another complains that Chris Jones got “-1 awareness and Nick Bolton also dropped one which makes absolutely 0 sense after the game he had.” The attention those guys have to detail is really impressive.
But it gets much more interesting when these rating discussions start getting personal. There are obviously some instances of regional bias accusations, with one user saying, “Tell me you arent biased…” after comparing the treatment of Dak Prescott to Jordan Love. Someone else noted that Joe Burrow is still rated 97 despite his injuries and laughed saying “he’s the only player who’s rating doesn’t go down after being put in injury.”
The weirdest thing about the whole situation is that somewhere amid all these rating complaints is someone who randomly states they “heard ea sold madden for 55 billion to 2k,” which…yeah, that definitely didn’t happen. But this just shows you how deep those conspiracy theories run in the Madden community when it comes to ratings.
More practical ones accompany the rage: A player simply asks, “where the fuck are ranked rewards,” stressing that as important as ratings are, actual gameplay features matter too. Another wondered, “is there actually somewhere to post roster concerns to someone who will actually listen??”-Which is honestly a fair question.
The animated level these arguments for ratings get to basically depict how much players really linger on making sure ratings are accurate in Madden 26. If some favorite player of theirs gets snubbed, they’re not just mildly annoyed-they’re going to write paragraphs on why the ratings team got it wrong. And with these particular attributes getting called out-individuals wisdom, speed, trucking-it’s clear the community watches these numbers that much more than probably the developers do themselves.
Madden ratings will always be despised, simply because everyone has their favorite players and teams to root for. Nevertheless, the Week 4 update created more drama than usual, placing quarterback ratings front and center. Whether EA Sports would actually take the feedback seriously is another story, but one thing is certain: The Madden community will not apologize for loudly expressing their opinion when ratings seem so blatantly inaccurate.
