{"id":273916,"date":"2023-07-17T08:45:52","date_gmt":"2023-07-17T13:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=273916"},"modified":"2023-07-17T08:45:53","modified_gmt":"2023-07-17T13:45:53","slug":"jefferson-makes-madden-99-club-as-top-rated-receiver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=273916","title":{"rendered":"Jefferson Makes ‘Madden 99 Club’ as Top-Rated Receiver"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

EAGAN, Minn. \u2014<\/strong> The Madden 24<\/em> player ratings have spoken and granted Justin Jefferson’s entry to the prestigious 99 Club.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Vikings phenom is the highest-rated receiver in this year’s game. Jefferson’s membership to the 99 Club was announced Monday morning on ESPN’s Get Up!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jefferson has made the Pro Bowl to end each of his first three seasons, shattering team and league all-time records along the way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He is entering his fourth pro season with 324 catches for 4,825 yards and 25 touchdowns after leading the NFL with 128 receptions and 1,809 yards in 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2020 first-round pick last week was awarded the\u00a02023 ESPY for Best Play<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0for his thrilling one-handed catch at Buffalo that converted a fourth-and-18.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ratings for other Vikings and all NFL players are scheduled to be announced later this month, but here are Jefferson’s numbers in multiple categories:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Overall: 99<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speed: 92<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Acceleration: 93<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Strength: 64<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Agility: 93<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Awareness: 99<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Catching: 98<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Carrying: 76<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breaking Tackles: 81<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jumping: 96<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stamina: 98<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Toughness: 87<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Change of Direction: 96<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spin Move: 80<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Juke Move: 92<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spectacular Catch: 99<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Catch in Traffic: 97<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Short Route: 98<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Medium Route: 97<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Deep Route: 97<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Release: 98<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photo: NFL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

EAGAN, Minn. \u2014 The Madden 24 player ratings have spoken and granted Justin Jefferson’s entry to the prestigious 99 Club. The Vikings phenom is the highest-rated receiver in this year’s game. Jefferson’s membership to the 99 Club was announced Monday morning on ESPN’s Get Up! Jefferson has made the Pro Bowl to end each […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":273917,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=273916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":273918,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273916\/revisions\/273918"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/273917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=273916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=273916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=273916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}