{"id":832027,"date":"2026-07-29T21:09:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T21:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/832027\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T21:09:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T21:09:30","slug":"fastest-player-in-madden-nfl-27-revealed-with-top-10-speed-ratings-will-anyone-catch-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/832027\/","title":{"rendered":"Fastest Player in Madden NFL 27 Revealed with Top 10 Speed Ratings, &#8216;Will Anyone Catch Him?&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">The Kansas City Chiefs are rostering the fastest player in EA Sports&#8217; Madden NFL for a second straight season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">Chiefs wide receiver Xavier Worthy is the only player with a 99 speed rating at launch of the upcoming NFL 27.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">EA Sports announced the news Wednesday in a post captioned, &#8220;Will anyone catch him?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">Worthy set an NFL scouting combine <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong mui-mlpnpn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/39641136\/texas-wr-xavier-worthy-421-40-fastest-combine-03\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">record<\/a> by running a 4.21-second 40-yard dash in 2024. He <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong mui-mlpnpn\" href=\"https:\/\/nfldraftbuzz.com\/madden\/player\/198012-xavier-worthy\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">received<\/a> a 98 speed rating in Madden NFL 25, then was bumped up to 99 in Madden NFL 26.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">Two Detroit Lions wide receivers earned a 98 speed rating at launch of NFL 27 in Jahmyr Gibbs and Jameson Williams. The Jacksonville Jaguars&#8217; Brian Thomas Jr., Dallas Cowboys&#8217; KaVontae Turpin and Los Angeles Chargers&#8217; Brenan Thompson came in just behind with a 97 rating.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">The latest edition of EA Sports&#8217; NFL series is set to <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong mui-mlpnpn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ea.com\/games\/madden-nfl\/madden-nfl-27\/buy\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">launch<\/a> Aug. 3 at 2 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Kansas City Chiefs are rostering the fastest player in EA Sports&#8217; Madden NFL for a second straight&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":832028,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-832027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832027","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=832027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/832028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=832027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=832027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=832027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}