Week six of the NFL season is in the books and while a few teams in the AFC have started to separate from the pack the NFC is still tightly bunched up. Much of the news coming out of the weekend though has to do with the head injuries inflicted and now penalties that will be coming for dangerous hits. Names that stood out in week six include Deion Branch who just fits so well in the Pats system, Russell Okung making Julius Peppers completely irrelevant, Roy Williams who now has a TD in thre...

Week five of the NFL season is in the books and not a single team remains undefeated. Parity rules this year. In some ways that could make Madden 11 more enjoyable as no team can claim to be unbeatable and every team (except maybe Buffalo) seems good enough to at least compete even against the stronger teams. Some names worthy of mentioning for continued high level of performance include Clay Matthews, Shaun Hill, Brandon Lloyd, Malcolm Floyd, Josh Freeman and Mike Williams (TB). Carson Pal...

With week four of the NFL season complete some clear trends can be spotted as to player performance with plenty of games now to evaluate from. There are some names that stand out prominently as outperforming expectations through this week such as Sam Bradford, Brandon Lloyd, Shaun Hill, Mike Tolbert, Rashard Mendenhall, LaDainian Tomlinson, and Kyle Orton (especially with no semblance of a running game). Chris Johnson may lose his 99 rating and the Bears offensive line should take a huge hit a...

Another exciting NFL week brought about some big performances as well as a couple kickers really letting their teams down. Given that I was at a game I wasn't able to fully analyze all of them for the top performers but based on production there are certainly some names that stand out to go up or down in the next Madden 11 roster update. Michael Vick, Anquan Boldin, Leon Washington, Earl Thomas, Tony Moeaki, Dexter McCluster, Tamba Hali, Darren McFadden, Austin Collie, Brandon Lloyd, and Ky...

After the opening week in which offenses tended to struggle week two brought more in the way of high scoring games and big offensive performances from players. It was also a weekend which saw quite a bit of shifting at quarterback as coaches lost their patience with starters and looked to backups for a spark. Names that will likely see ratings increases include Lions RB Jahvid Best, Eagles QB Michael Vick, Bears QB Jay Cutler and WR Devin Hester, Falcons FB Jason Snelling, Chargers FB Mike ...

It was an entertaining opening weekend to the NFL season as several games went down to the wire and some heavily hyped teams came crashing back down to earth. Last week's roster update was primarily intended to get in the most accurate 53 man rosters possible and didn't focus much on adjusting ratings. This first update of the regular season should see more in the way of ratings changes as the first game and preseason has established a better sense of the level players are performing at and th...