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Nicholas Battle

QB #5 · Bengals · OVR 82 · Compare

Player Info

Age
23
Height / Weight
78" / 226 lbs
College
Michigan
Hometown
—
Years Pro
1
Draft
Round 4, Pick 30 (2032)

Contract

Cap Hit
$1.5M
Salary
$5.1M
Bonus
$1.2M
Years Left
3 of 4

Trade Value

521

overall 41.35 × superstar 1.75 × age 23 1.16 × QB 1.75 × contract 1.36

A bargain: $1.5M against the $7.3M a player this good usually costs. 3 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

$15.0M/yr

median of 13 comparable contracts, including rookie deals still running

His deal

$1.6M/yr

not in a negotiating window

Going rate drawn from same position, any rating, what is paid from same position, ±5 OVR. 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

Physical

SPD70
ACC80
AGI77
STR79
JMP58
STA98

Passing

POW93
ACC-S83
ACC-M84
ACC-D87
ROLL83
PRES87

Ball Carrier

CAR62
BTK65
TRK54
JUK59
SPM57
SFA57

Progression

No rating history recorded for this player yet.

Season 8 · Madden 26

PASS35/50 · 376 yds · 3 TD · 4 INT
RUSH2 car · -2 yds · 0 TD

Game Log

WkOppResultStats
20vs TEN23-0
PASS13/13 · 124 yds · 1 TD · 0 INT
RUSH2 car · -2 yds · 0 TD
21vs HOU14-29
PASS22/37 · 252 yds · 2 TD · 4 INT
RUSH0 car · 0 yds · 0 TD

In the Chronicle

  • Vol. 2, Issue 23 · Green Bay beats Houston 34-10 to win the HFL Championship, closing a 16-1 season and the entire Madden 26 cycle in the same afternoon -- no box score survives from the game itself, only the final score. Inside: the full Season VIII retrospective, all four champions of the cycle, Jenna Tulls's farewell column, and the league's introduction to its next correspondent.
  • Vol. 2, Issue 22 · Cincinnati's 17-0 season ends in the AFC Championship as Houston wins 29-14 despite four Nicholas Battle interceptions, Green Bay survives Washington by one point, and the HFL Championship is set: Houston at Green Bay, a rematch of a game the Packers won by two points in Week 4.
  • Vol. 2, Issue 21 · Baker Mayfield throws for 369 yards and four touchdowns and loses by one, Bijan Robinson answers with 212 yards from scrimmage and four touchdowns of his own, and the Chronicle's pick to upset Green Bay is wrong by 26 points. Four teams are left for two conference-championship rematches.
  • 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 14 · Denver and Cincinnati both push to 13-0, Green Bay routs San Francisco in the Game of the Week, and a Jaguars running back breaks two all-time records in the same afternoon.
  • 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 11 · Green Bay's perfect season ends in Philadelphia, Denver and Cincinnati are the last two teams left unbeaten, and a running back the Chronicle had never featured before is the reason why.