It is a big week for some people. A very big one. In case you are unaware, CFB 26 released on Monday for those who pre-ordered. If you are still lost, CFB is College Football 26 which is the football video game involving the world of (shocker here) college football.
Prior to last year any video games involving college football had been shelved for about a decade due to rights associated to the likeness of players. In our NIL world and all that it encompasses, this opened the door for the game to return and it was a smashing success. Like with the professional version of the game that EA produces in Madden there are annual versions of the game and we have reached that day this year.
Here is how this year’s Cowboys rookie draft class was rated initially in CFB 25
One of the biggest points of fun with the video game is seeing how different players and schools are rated. It goes without saying that Ohio State will have all sorts of juice and the Alabama types of the world are perennially rated well.
Speaking of Alabama, the Cowboys have a first-round pick who was a part of the Crimson Tide last year and therefore a member of the game. We thought it would be fun to look back at this year’s rookie draft class and see what their ratings were in the game when it first launched last year.
- Tyler Booker………………………………………. 91 overall
- Donovan Ezeiruaku…………………………….. 85 overall
- Shavon Revel…………………………………….. 88 overall
- Jaydon Blue………………………………………. 85 overall
- Shemar James…………………………………… 84 overall
- Ajani Cornelius………………………………….. 89 overall
- Jay Toia…………………………………………….. 79 overall
- Phil Mafah…………………………………………. 88 overall
- Tommy Akingbesote………………………….. 76 overall
As you can see the Cowboys “only” had one player who was originally rated above 90 and it was their first-round pick in Tyler Booker. That runs chalk.
For the most part each player was viewed as more than serviceable by the game and while that obviously doesn’t mean anything relative to how their games will translate to the NFL it is still interesting to see, especially with the context of the entire past year.
This year’s Madden will be out soon enough and it will be interesting to see how EA ranks them in an entirely different game that involves the professional level.
