“His accuracy has gotten progressively worse over the past two years and while he might’ve been playing hurt, we can’t really project how much that impacted him because we don’t know everyone who was hurt and how much it impacted them on a week to week basis.
“Rodgers has been kind of taking a bit of a downhill slope the past three years,” Andre Weingarten, Associate Franchise and Gameplay Designer for Madden 20, told Complex’s Brian Jones. Madden, though, clearly had its reasons for Rodgers’ drop. That standing has led to widespread criticism from Packers fans, who believe Rodgers, after earning a hallowed 99 overall rating last year, was dinged too much for a subpar performance in 2018 that was still the caliber of which most NFL quarterbacks could only dream.
The future Hall of Famer has a 90 overall rating in this year’s edition of the video game, seventh-best among quarterbacks. You certainly wouldn’t know it given Rodgers’ underwhelming rating in Madden 20, though. He’s not only expected to play much better in 2019 than he did a year ago, but also to re-establish himself as one of the best overall players in football. Aaron Rodgers is fully healthy after a season marred by multiple injuries, and seems poised to thrive in the Green Bay Packers’ rebuilt offense under first-year coach Matt LaFleur.