Is LA Rams Aaron Donald limited by EA Madden 21?

LA Rams News: DL Aaron Donald makes the 99-club in EA Madden 21, but is that high enough?

In the latest LA Rams news: Defensive lineman Aaron Donald is once more the highest-rated defensive lineman in the latest release of EA Madden 21. Donald has a 99-rating in this year’s release of EA’s popular football simulation.  He is so good that he is one of the few players whose upside is limited in video games. At least, that’s what you could conclude in the latest rating in EA Maden 21.  He has been rated 99 for his fourth straight appearance in the video game, a very popular NFL simulator that infuses real NFL players into a football simulation, and rates players based upon their actual performance, production, and potential.

The best rating a player can achieve is a 99.  Earning a rating of 99 is very significant, as it is the best rating achievable by a player. Donald has done so in the last four consecutive seasons.

99 club regular

In fact, he is the only defender with a 99 rating in pass rushing in Madden 21.  That’s incredibly impressive for a down lineman in a 3-4 defensive front.

But is 99 a fair rating? Or is he simply so good, that the game does not have a setting high enough to truly represent his abilities on the football field? That’s a good question.

It’s difficult to record concert music because the range of volume from soft to loud is too far of a range for recordings. So sound engineers compress decibel ranges to fit the range of recorded sound. So too, movies are reformatted to fit the size and shape of a home television screen, either by lopping off some video from each end, or shortening the height of the video image and naming that video format “widescreen”.

In a similar fashion, Rams Aaron Donald may be better than EA Madden 21’s upper limit, so he may simply be reformatted to fit the best that the game format can handle. That allows two blockers to handle him, while some offenses commit three blockers to neutralize him.