{"id":837547,"date":"2026-08-01T10:06:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T10:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/837547\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T10:06:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T10:06:23","slug":"heres-how-the-chiefs-stack-up-in-madden-nfl-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/837547\/","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s How the Chiefs Stack Up in Madden NFL 27"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The dawn of another football season means the release of\u00a0Madden NFL is imminent as well, and following a week of announcements, we now know how the Kansas City Chiefs will initially stack up in this year&#8217;s game.<\/p>\n<p>First, six members of the Chiefs earned an overall &#8220;rating&#8221; of at least 90:<\/p>\n<p>Center Creed Humphrey (95)<\/p>\n<p>Defensive Lineman Chris Jones (94)<\/p>\n<p>Quarterback Patrick Mahomes (93)<\/p>\n<p>Tight End Travis Kelce (91)<\/p>\n<p>Offensive Guard Trey Smith (91)<\/p>\n<p>Running Back Ken Walker (90)<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, wide receiver Xavier Worthy owns the distinction of being the fastest overall player in the game as the only individual with a &#8220;speed rating&#8221; of 99.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of rookie standouts, cornerback Mansoor Delane (79) owns the sixth-best overall rating in this year&#8217;s game among first-year players, while wide receiver Jeff Caldwell ranks fifth among all rookies in terms of speed (at 95).<\/p>\n<p>Each of those players will now have a chance to improve on their initial ratings as the 2026 season gets underway soon enough.<\/p>\n<p>For a look at all of the ratings,\u00a0<a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ea.com\/games\/madden-nfl\/ratings\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The dawn of another football season means the release of\u00a0Madden NFL is imminent as well, and following a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":837548,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[29048,64,63,5386,596,106958,13521,1240,593,6672,6584,85,7508,106960,106959,106961,14068],"class_list":["post-837547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-andy-reid","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-chiefs","tag-football","tag-geha-field-at-arrowhead-stadium","tag-kansas-city","tag-kansas-city-chiefs","tag-nfl","tag-nfl-football","tag-patrick-mahomes","tag-sports","tag-super-bowl","tag-super-bowl-iv","tag-super-bowl-liv","tag-super-bowl-lvii","tag-travis-kelce"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837547","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=837547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/837548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=837547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=837547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=837547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}