Hey, EA Sports: Lamar Jackson Is Ready To Be In Madden’s 99 Club

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Baltimore Ravens backmost Lamar Jackson makes plays connected the tract that don’t look possible, beryllium it with his limb oregon his legs.

Jackson’s manager astatine Boynton Beach Community High, Rick Swain, utilized to telephone him “Mr. Video Game.”

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“He stood isolated from everybody else. It looked similar you were playing Madden oregon something,” Swain told ESPN successful 2019. “You had the supercharged guy.”

Jackson filled up the stat expanse successful the Ravens’ 31-25 overtime triumph against the Indianapolis Colts. In lawsuit you request a reminder, helium went 37-for-43 with 442 passing yards and 4 touchdowns, and rushed for 62 yards.

On Wednesday, a newsman asked Jackson astir Madden, the long-running NFL video crippled franchise. Friends were texting him astir the quarterback’s 85% completion percent against the Colts and saying, “I can’t adjacent bash that successful Madden,” the newsman said.

“I tin bash that successful Madden,” Jackson rapidly replied with a smile.

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So is it clip for the backmost to beryllium successful the 99 Club, a prime radical of players with the game’s highest wide ranking of 99 overall?

“Man, I consciousness similar we should person been successful the 99 Club,” Jackson joked. “Man, I don’t cognize what’s up with Madden.”

.@EAMaddenNFL, @Lj_era8 would similar a connection 😂😂 pic.twitter.com/nVs6zhtAcd

— Baltimore Ravens (@Ravens) October 13, 2021

And past helium pretended to question disconnected the question. “We ain’t adjacent talking astir that one,” helium said.

Madden 22 has Jackson has a 92 overall, according to rankings from the game’s developer, EA Sports. His elite velocity is represented with a 96 velocity standing and a 96 acceleration rating, and EA Sports adjacent seems to admit Jackson’s cannon limb with a 92 throwing powerfulness ranking.

But they ding the Ravens backmost for his accuracy, with ratings connected short, mean and heavy passes being nary higher than 89.

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Maybe they volition marque the indispensable changes aft watching a replay of that Colts game.

CBS Baltimore Staff