EA Sports walked straight into a fan revolt with its first Madden 27 team rankings, and the Seattle Seahawks are at the center of it.
The defending Super Bowl champions landed at No. 10 overall with an 84 rating, a number that immediately lit up social media. The Rams, Seattle’s NFC West rival, checked in at No. 1 with a 91 overall, putting the Seahawks seven points behind them. Seattle also fell behind four other NFC teams and even the New England Patriots - the same Patriots the Seahawks beat convincingly in Super Bowl 60.
Fans did not waste any time calling out the disconnect. “This makes no sense,” one said.
Another piled on: “Defending Super Bowl Champs at 10 is NASTY WORK! Not to mention it’s misspelled, and they still ain’t fix it!
SMDH. The disrespect is REAL.
That was a def a choice. Oh well.
Run it forward fellas,”
A third was just as blunt: “How do you guys post this and not be embarrassed . The 17-3 Super Bowl champs are the 10th best team on the game…????”
The criticism kept coming. “Super Bowl Champs should at minimum be in the top 3 when they kept 20/22 starters,” one fan said. Another wrote, “This is genuinely one of the worst ranking I’ve ever seen”
One more reaction summed up the mood: “The defending Super Bowl champs at an 84 and 10th overall is certainly a decision”
And the backlash got even louder because EA’s graphic also misspelled the team name, calling them the “Seattle Seawhawks.” That typo became its own target as fans mocked the company for getting both the ranking and the spelling wrong.
The Seahawks, meanwhile, are being described as a loaded group with a strong run game, a star wide receiver and one of the league’s top defenses. None of that showed up in the Madden 27 evaluation, at least not in the eyes of the fans watching the reveal.
Madden ratings always stir up arguments, but this one hit a nerve because of the timing. Seattle just finished a championship run and enters the season as the title defender after tough playoff wins and a complete Super Bowl performance. An 84 overall and a No. 10 placement didn’t sit right with plenty of people, Seahawks fans and otherwise.
EA Sports has not yet offered a detailed response to the criticism. For now, the rankings hub is still out there, but the Seahawks’ spot is the one everyone is talking about.
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