{"id":33968,"date":"2025-07-31T03:01:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T03:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/33968\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T03:01:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T03:01:10","slug":"patriots-rookie-gets-top-10-rating-in-madden-nfl-26-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/33968\/","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":33969,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[620,634,64,63,5349,6115,1238,1208,596,1852,5126,619,31167,23167,1237,23168,2874,1250,31165,31168,621,637,3127,1231,1242,44,593,633,323,451,5348,439,5345,85,31169,635,31166,1285,2875,3918],"class_list":["post-33968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-american","tag-american-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-browns","tag-cleveland","tag-cleveland-browns","tag-england","tag-football","tag-games","tag-giants","tag-hub","tag-hunter","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-jaguars","tag-jaguars","tag-las","tag-las-vegas-raiders","tag-madden","tag-madden-nfl","tag-national","tag-national-sports","tag-new","tag-new-england-patriots","tag-new-york-giants","tag-news","tag-nfl","tag-nfl-hub","tag-overall","tag-overall-positive","tag-patriots","tag-positive","tag-raiders","tag-sports","tag-sports-games","tag-sports-news","tag-travis","tag-travis-hunter","tag-vegas","tag-york"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}