It's still very early in the NFL season but certain trends have already begun to emerge and individual players have either reestablished themselves coming off last season or are showing signs of breaking out. While there probably won't be many huge ratings swings in this week's Madden NFL 12 roster update it should be setting up for that time which justifiably is nearing. Another round of severe injuries has landed Jamaal Charles, Thomas Davis, Nick Collins, and Jordan Shipley on IR. Mile...

Back again for this year will be the weekly recap of the most significant performances and trends to set expectations for the next Madden NFL 12 roster update. As always you're encouraged to drop your observations on players or teams in the comments as they relate to getting a boost or taking a hit ratings wise or for correction purposes. The next roster update is expected at the end of the week - and though it will probably avoid making drastic ratings changes there will be many signific...

Last week's roster update for Madden 11 cleaned up some of the players that had been off considering performance over the course of the full season and also returned some from injury. Should there be a roster update following the divisional round of the NFL Playoffs (not yet confirmed) it will take mostly into account the eight teams that played over the weekend. Some of the standout games in the divisional round came from Aaron Rodgers, Tramon Williams, Greg Olsen, Terrell Suggs, Jerome Ha...

The roster update for Madden 11 this week will be the first since week 15 of the NFL season and is expected to encompass a wider evaluation on the season rather than just looking the developments at the end. This will probably be the biggest one remaining as the rest will concentrate on the playoffs and return players from the IR following the Super Bowl. How about Tramon Williams and James Starks for the Packers? A bunch of Seahawks played at a level unseen this season with Marshawn Lynch ...

Following a week off the final regular season roster update for Madden 11 is expected out by the end of the week. Week 17 of the NFL season is not a great one though for analyzing players since many of the games involve one or both of the teams having nothing to play for. If you missed it check out my look at the ratings for those players selected to the Pro Bowl as well as highly rated ones that didn't make the cut. Arian Foster sealed up the rushing title by going for 180 and totaled 1616...

The Pro Bowl is hardly the most accurate way to assess the years that players are having. Some names get in more based on reputation or market exposure than performance in the current season. Still it can present the big picture of the season and in this sense I thought it'd be interesting to look at the current ratings of Pro Bowl selected players in Madden 11 as well as the highest rated players who didn't make it. In doing so there could be some overrated or underrated players exposed. (mo...

Though there will be no roster update this week for Madden 11 the performances from NFL week 16 of course will factor into the next one. For the first time ever this posting goes up on a Wednesday, as it follows the completion of the rare Tuesday Night Football broadcast! The Pro Bowl rosters were announced yesterday so it is possible those will be updated coming up too. This was a relatively flat week in performances, which is particularly tough considering it was the Championship week for...

With only a couple weeks left in the NFL season teams are either fighting for the playoffs or for the future and there are likely to be more interesting changes in the way of personnel than ratings this week. Many more players headed to the IR and backup QBs are getting a shot to lead their teams. The two most prominent changes came with Tim Tebow supplanting Kyle Orton in Denver and Donovan McNabb being sat in favor of Rex Grossman. Vincent Jackson has returned and is making a big impact. ...