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'Madden 20' ratings: 3 most overrated Ravens

Ahead of the highly anticipated Aug. 2 launch date of this year’s installment of the “Madden” video game franchise, the developers at EA Sports made the game’s player ratings public for the first time. Though the ratings are largely subjective and sometimes seemingly arbitrary, they nonetheless do a decent job of mirroring players’ actual abilities.

However, ratings aren’t an exact science — something best captured by these ostensibly off-kilter ratings. While we’ve already covered the biggest Baltimore Ravens snubs in the ratings, there are also players on the other end of the spectrum whom the game seems to have overvalued.

While future updates to the ratings might address these aberrations, gamers can — for now — benefit from these players being overrated.

TE Hayden Hurst: 78 overall

The No. 25 overall selection in the 2018 draft largely fell short of early expectations because of injury. In 12 games, Hurst had just 13 catches for 163 yards and a touchdown. As a result, Hurst’s rating in this year’s game remains the same as it was when “Madden NFL 19” launched in his rookie season.

However, it doesn’t seem fair that Hurst’s rating is only one point below that of Ravens tight end Mark Andrews, the leader in receiving yards among rookie tight ends and one of football’s most promising players at the position. In a similar vein, Hurst has the same rating as wide receiver Willie Snead — the team’s top pass catcher in 2018. It would seem that Snead is deserving of slightly higher marks relative to the unproven Edwards.

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