Riley Leonard
QB #11 · Jets · OVR 70 · Compare
Drafted: Madden 27 Fantasy Draft, Round 19, Pick 18 (#594 overall) by NYJ · 67 OVR then
Also in Madden 26: Riley Leonard, NYJ · 85 OVR →
Player Info
- Age
- 23
- Height / Weight
- 76" / 216 lbs
- College
- Notre Dame
- Hometown
- Fairhope
- Years Pro
- 1
- Draft
- Round 20, Pick 19 (2024)
Contract
- Cap Hit
- $2.0M
- Salary
- $7.0M
- Bonus
- $1.0M
- Years Left
- 4 of 4
Trade Value
55
overall 9.19 × normal 1 × age 23 1.16 × QB 1.75 × contract 1.13
A bargain: $2.0M against the $2.9M a player this good usually costs. 4 years left, which is what gives it weight.
This league's own model, not Madden's — EA publishes no trade value. It prices the contract as well as the player, because a team trading for him takes the number on too. How it works.
Market Value
Going rate
—/yr
no comparable player is negotiating right now
Currently paid
$1.6M/yr
median of 11 comparable contracts, including rookie deals still running
His deal
$2.0M/yr
not in a negotiating window
Going rate drawn from same position, any rating, what is paid from same position, ±5 OVR, same age group. Each group widens until it holds at least five players, so a small count means this profile is rare in the league and the figure deserves less weight. Annual value is total salary plus bonus over the length of the deal — not the cap hit, which Madden back-loads.
Ratings
Progression
- Oct 8, 2026 OVR 67 → 70
Season 9 · Madden 27
Preseason only -- exhibition games, never counted toward season totals or records
Game Log
Career
Earlier titles matched by name and college.
In the Chronicle
- Vol. 2, Issue 20 · Denver's perfect season is over. Tennessee, the seven seed at 8-9, wins 16-13 in Denver behind three Harrison Butker field goals and two Joey Bosa sacks, and the Broncos are held to their lowest point and yardage totals of the year. Arizona beats San Francisco by a point, Houston is outgained by 131 yards and wins anyway, and Philadelphia runs for 267 in a 41-3 rout. Eight teams remain, Cincinnati is the last unbeaten one, and the bracket reseeds for the divisional round.
- Vol. 2, Issue 18 · Cincinnati and Denver both finish the regular season 17-0 — the first double-perfect season in league history — Jahmyr Gibbs closes with 3,126 rushing yards to shatter the single-season record, and Joe Burrow throws for 370 yards and four touchdowns to send Carolina into the offseason on a high note.
- Vol. 2, Issue 17 · Denver and Cincinnati both push to 16-0 with one week left, Jahmyr Gibbs runs for 221 yards and four touchdowns to close in on the rushing record, and Riley Leonard's near-flawless day leads the Jets to a 37-0 shutout of New England.
- Vol. 2, Issue 16 · Denver and Cincinnati both push to 15-0, a one-point classic decides the Game of the Week, and Warren Davis and Marvin Daniels turn a Broncos-Titans shootout into the highest-scoring game of the week.
- Vol. 2, Issue 15 · Denver and Cincinnati both push to 14-0, Dallas is shut out in the Game of the Week, and Jahmyr Gibbs runs for 324 yards to put the single-season rushing record within reach.
- Vol. 2, Issue 13 · Denver and Cincinnati both push to 12-0, New England and Seattle combine for 115 points in the season's second-biggest shootout, and Jahmyr Gibbs closes in on the single-season rushing record with five games to play.
- Vol. 2, Issue 12 · Denver and Cincinnati both push to 11-0, Josh Allen throws for 501 yards and seven touchdowns and still loses, and a Cardinals quarterback outlasts a shootout in Carolina.
- Vol. 2, Issue 10 · Three teams are still unbeaten through ten weeks, De'Von Achane runs for 248 yards and four touchdowns, and a Buccaneers tight end delivers the two touchdowns that hold off Cleveland.
- Vol. 2, Issue 9 · A rookie quarterback ends Washington's perfect season, Green Bay and Denver both push to 9-0, and a kicker in Los Angeles breaks a record that has stood since the league's first season.
- Vol. 2, Issue 8 · Green Bay and Denver both push to 8-0, Cincinnati and Washington join them at 7-0, and San Francisco's perfect season ends in New York as the league's unbeaten group narrows to exactly four.
- Vol. 2, Issue 7 · Two teams are still perfect after seven weeks, a fourth team joins the winless column, and Washington's quarterback still hasn't thrown a single interception.
- Vol. 2, Issue 6 · The season's first bye week thinned the slate to fourteen games and the league still found a way to rewrite the record book, play a 66-50 shootout, and send three teams to 6-0.