Trade Values

These are our numbers, not Madden's. EA publishes a great deal about every player — overall, ratings, contract, dev trait — but no trade value, so unlike everything else on this site this figure is a model rather than a mirror. It is shown broken out below so it can be argued with rather than taken on faith.

A value is a starting point for a negotiation, not a verdict on one. Two GMs who agree a deal is fair have settled it, whatever the number says.

How a player's value is built

Five factors, multiplied. The first four say how good he is; the fifth says what he costs, because a team trading for a player takes his contract on as surely as it takes him. The cap pages price a contract on its own terms.

Overall

A power curve, not a line — the gap from 85 to 90 dwarfs 70 to 75.

70 OVR	9.19
75 OVR	18.77
80 OVR	33.63
85 OVR	55.08
90 OVR	84.45
95 OVR	123.11
99 OVR	161.67

Development

What decides whether a 78 at 23 becomes a 92. Kept moderate because overall already reflects some of it.

Normal	×1
Star	×1.35
Superstar	×1.75
X-Factor	×2.2

Position

A 90 quarterback is not a 90 kicker.

QB	×1.75
WR	×1.15
CB	×1.12
LEDGE	×1.15
TE	×0.92
HB	×0.75
C	×0.72
K	×0.15

Age, by position

Every year past the peak costs value, and how fast depends on the position — a 32-year-old running back and a 32-year-old quarterback are not the same asset. Below the peak there is a small premium for the extra years of control.

Position	22	24	26	28	30	32	34
QB	×1.2	×1.12	×1.04	×0.92	×0.77	×0.64	×0.54
WR	×1.12	×1.04	×0.85	×0.61	×0.44	×0.32	×0.23
CB	×1.16	×1.08	×1	×0.77	×0.6	×0.46	×0.36
LEDGE	×1.2	×1.12	×1.04	×0.9	×0.73	×0.59	×0.48
TE	×1.12	×1.04	×0.85	×0.61	×0.44	×0.32	×0.23
HB	×1.12	×1.04	×0.85	×0.61	×0.44	×0.32	×0.23
C	×1.2	×1.12	×1.04	×0.9	×0.73	×0.59	×0.48
K	×1.2	×1.2	×1.12	×1.04	×0.93	×0.8	×0.7

Contract

Cost measured against what a player that good normally costs. Fitted on the league's own 1,672 contracted players: cap hit tracks quality at roughly its square root, so the best players are the ones most underpaid for what they actually do — which is why they are the assets everyone wants. Years left scale it in both directions, and practice-squad players carry no contract at all, so they score a flat ×1.

Cap hit vs expected	1 yr left	2 yrs	4+ yrs
70% under market	×1.2	×1.28	×1.45
50% under market	×1.12	×1.17	×1.27
20% under market	×1.04	×1.05	×1.08
at market	×1	×1	×1
1.5× market	×0.94	×0.92	×0.87
2.5× market	×0.88	×0.83	×0.73
3.5× market	×0.84	×0.78	×0.65

Draft picks

Slots are projected from the current standings — worst record picks first — and follow the team whose pick it originally was, not whoever holds it now.

Pick values follow Chase Stuart's draft value chart, the one Pro-Football-Reference publishes: what players taken at each pick actually went on to produce in their first five seasons. It is measured rather than negotiated, so later picks keep far more value than the old Jimmy Johnson chart gives them — the 1st overall pick is worth about 6.5 times the 100th, not 30. Scaled so a mid first-rounder sits ahead of a solid starter and well behind a star.

Round	First pick	Middle	Last pick
Round 1	519	253	188
Round 2	185	149	122
Round 3	120	101	83
Round 4	83	69	56
Round 5	56	45	35
Round 6	33	26	17
Round 7	17	9	2

Most valuable players top 50 of 1751

#	Player	Team	Pos	OVR	Age	Dev	Cap hit	Value
1	Josh Allen	CLE	QB	99	30	X-Factor	$20.0M	1050
2	Drake Maye	DEN	QB	93	24	X-Factor	$20.0M	1004
3	Joe Burrow	IND	QB	97	29	X-Factor	$20.0M	997
4	Jaxon Smith-Njigba	WAS	WR	99	24	X-Factor	$20.0M	920
5	Christian Gonzalez	PHI	CB	98	24	X-Factor	$20.0M	863
6	Caleb Williams	ATL	QB	91	24	X-Factor	$20.0M	842
7	Puka Nacua	NO	WR	98	25	X-Factor	$20.0M	814
8	Micah Parsons	DET	REDGE	98	27	X-Factor	$20.0M	814
9	Lamar Jackson	HOU	QB	94	29	X-Factor	$20.0M	781
10	Patrick Surtain II	MIA	CB	97	26	X-Factor	$20.0M	730
11	Ja'Marr Chase	LAC	WR	99	26	X-Factor	$20.0M	728
12	Myles Garrett	SEA	REDGE	99	30	X-Factor	$18.0M	685
13	Penei Sewell	LAR	LT	98	25	Superstar	$20.0M	649
14	Patrick Mahomes	BUF	QB	93	30	X-Factor	$20.0M	647
15	Aidan Hutchinson	GB	LEDGE	93	26	X-Factor	$18.0M	640
16	Amon-Ra St. Brown	TEN	WR	95	26	X-Factor	$18.0M	602
17	Nick Bosa	LV	LEDGE	94	28	X-Factor	$18.0M	592
18	Maxx Crosby	PIT	LEDGE	97	29	X-Factor	$20.0M	590
19	Trey McBride	CAR	TE	99	26	X-Factor	$20.0M	562
20	Will Anderson Jr	ARI	LEDGE	95	24	Superstar	$20.0M	561
21	Jahmyr Gibbs	CHI	HB	98	24	X-Factor	$20.0M	519
22	Justin Herbert	BAL	QB	91	28	Superstar	$20.0M	511
23	Derek Stingley Jr	CIN	CB	92	25	X-Factor	$20.0M	504
24	Rashawn Slater	BUF	LT	94	27	Superstar	$18.0M	493
25	Drake London	IND	WR	92	25	Superstar	$15.0M	474
26	Tristan Wirfs	SEA	LT	95	27	Superstar	$20.0M	467
27	Justin Jefferson	MIN	WR	94	27	X-Factor	$18.0M	466
28	Matthew Stafford	SF	QB	99	38	X-Factor	$20.0M	461
29	Trent McDuffie	NE	CB	94	25	Superstar	$20.0M	459
30	Brock Bowers	TEN	TE	93	23	X-Factor	$20.0M	457
31	Nik Bonitto	DEN	REDGE	91	26	Superstar	$15.0M	455
32	Andrew Thomas	KC	LT	93	27	Superstar	$18.0M	455
33	Bijan Robinson	NYG	HB	96	24	X-Factor	$20.0M	443
34	CeeDee Lamb	LAC	WR	93	27	X-Factor	$18.0M	430
35	Jordan Love	TB	QB	88	27	Superstar	$20.0M	427
36	Derrick Brown	PIT	DT	96	28	Superstar	$18.0M	422
37	Devon Witherspoon	MIA	CB	91	25	Superstar	$18.0M	410
38	Brock Purdy	GB	QB	87	26	Superstar	$20.0M	405
39	Jared Verse	HOU	REDGE	89	25	Superstar	$15.0M	399
40	Dak Prescott	KC	QB	91	33	X-Factor	$20.0M	398
41	Xavier McKinney	NE	SS	92	27	X-Factor	$15.0M	397
42	Jeffery Simmons	ARI	DT	95	29	Superstar	$15.0M	378
43	Sauce Gardner	CIN	CB	90	25	Superstar	$18.0M	376
44	George Pickens	CHI	WR	89	25	Superstar	$10.0M	376
45	Josh Hines-Allen	SF	REDGE	89	29	X-Factor	$15.0M	375
46	Antoine Winfield Jr	NYJ	FS	93	28	X-Factor	$15.0M	375
47	Kyle Hamilton	WAS	SS	92	25	Superstar	$15.0M	372
48	Nico Collins	CAR	WR	90	27	X-Factor	$15.0M	362
49	Christian Darrisaw	HOU	LT	90	27	Superstar	$18.0M	354
50	Fred Warner	LV	MIKE	98	29	X-Factor	$20.0M	354