{"id":790050,"date":"2026-07-28T21:18:36","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T21:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/790050\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T21:18:36","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T21:18:36","slug":"fernando-mendoza-jeremiyah-love-caleb-downs-full-madden-nfl-27-rookie-class-ratings-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/790050\/","title":{"rendered":"Fernando Mendoza, Jeremiyah Love, Caleb Downs, Full Madden NFL 27 Rookie Class Ratings Revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Madden NFL 27 ratings rollout continued on Tuesday with the reveal for the incoming rookie class<\/a>. <\/p>\n

No. 1 overall pick Fernando Mendoza checks in at a 74 overall, but he is looking up at Jeremiyah Love and Caleb Downs tied at 82 overall for the best rating among all rookies in the game. <\/p>\n

Most pre-draft rankings had either Love or Downs as the No. 1 player in this year’s class. B\/R’s NFL scouting department had them ranked<\/a> first and second, with Downs getting the edge. <\/p>\n

The 82 overall rating for both Love and Downs is the third-highest for rookies in the last eight years of Madden NFL games. The only rookies that received a higher initial rating both came last year<\/a> when Travis Hunter was an 84 and Ashton Jeanty was an 83. <\/p>\n

Mendoza’s rating is tied for 49th among all rookies and tied for 29th among all first-round picks. New York Jets tight end Kenyon Sadiq (No. 16) and Houston Texans guard Keylan Rutledge (No. 26) also received a 74 rating. <\/p>\n

Ty Simpson, arguably the most debated selection in the entire 2026 class, is the lowest-rated first-rounder at 71 overall. <\/p>\n

Mendoza did receive a better rating than 2025 No. 1 overall Cam Ward got in last year’s game. The Tennessee Titans quarterback was a 72 when the initial ratings came out. <\/p>\n

One player EA Sports appears to be very high on is KC Concepcion Jr. The Cleveland Browns wideout is a 75 overall, but he has four skill traits with a rating over 90 including speed (91), agility (91), change of direction (91) and injury (92). <\/p>\n

Madden NFL 27 will release for the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X\/S, Windows and Nintendo Switch 2 on Aug. 13. EA Sports MVP+ members will receive early access starting on Aug. 6. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Madden NFL 27 ratings rollout continued on Tuesday with the reveal for the incoming rookie class. No.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":790051,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-790050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=790050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/790051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=790050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=790050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=790050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}