3 ways to challenge Xavien Howard from a coaching standpoint

If you think NFL players don’t care about this, you’re way wrong. They do and Xavien Howard should be beyond irritated

The Madden 2022 player ratings were released recently, and as you can imagine they created quite the stir on the internet. Hell hath no fury like a regular dude behind a keyboard not liking how their favorite player was rated in a video game. The cornerback list came out and there was a dare I say shocking omission in the top 10.

Xavien Howard, a guy who had10 INTs two years ago and had five last year doesn’t even break into the top 10 cornerbacks in the game. Simply blasphemous, in my opinion.

I think his actual rating is an 88 but that’s beside the point at this point. He should be at least in the top three of top corners in the game because he’s a top-three corner in real life. He hasn’t lost a step or anything like that. It’s really hard to get INTs when everyone knows you’d have to be a fool to throw his way.

Patrick Surtain the second had four INTs and Lattimore had three. Now I know it’s not all about INTs, but it’s not like Howard lacked in any other metric out there.

It’s just that Xavien Howard plays for the Miami Dolphins and is easily forgotten.

If I was Sam Madison and Patrick Surtain the first, I’d be letting Howard know that geeks at Madden think he’s nothing. I’d be letting him know all day that we don’t deal with no #1 corners who only have 88 ratings.

Also, if I was Madison and Surtain, I’d be throwing it in Xavien Howard’s face how back when they were playing that Madison was a 97, and Surtain Sr was a 96 2004. Let Howard know about it all the time to use as fuel to prove to all the Madden nerds that they in fact have no clue what they’re talking about. That’s what I would do if I were on the staff.