Madden NFL 26 is coming quickly. Like clockwork, it arrives each August, simply earlier than the league itself dives headfirst into a brand new season. This fall, it will be the Philadelphia Eagles defending their championship for the second time since 2018, and to maybe nobody’s shock, their star working again, Saquon Barkley, will grace the quilt of Madden NFL 26, for each the sport’s customary and Final editions.
Barkley’s pose on the usual cowl is a re-enactment of his well-known backward-hurdle transfer he carried out throughout final season. The dazzling show was shortly dropped at life inside Madden 25, and can, after all, return for Madden 26. On the Final Version cowl, a close-up of the Eagles star might be seen.
Final season, Saquon Barkley turned the ninth participant in NFL historical past to hurry for two,000 or extra yards, and the primary since Derrick Henry did so in 2020. He additionally notched 13 dashing touchdowns and added 33 catches. He was just about unstoppable for a lot of the season, and although he had a quiet recreation within the Tremendous Bowl, it did not show to matter because the Eagles breezily dealt with the Chiefs for the franchise’s second-ever league championship.
Barkley joined the Eagles after their rival, the New York Giants, did not persuade him to stick with the group. The transfer turned an embarrassing second for the Giants, because the saga performed out on HBO’s Exhausting Knocks, a sequence that follows a group carefully for weeks at a time, offering followers with a behind-the-scenes take a look at an NFL franchise. The inaugural GM-themed season of the present might show to be one-and-done, because the Giants’ lack of ability to retain their star participant turned a viral second, to the extent that through the newest offseason, no such GM season is returning, as seemingly nobody wished to ask an identical highlight.
Whereas some gamers would possibly fear concerning the bogus Madden Curse affecting Barkley’s 2025 marketing campaign, he must be extra conscious of the “curse” of 370, which says that working backs who exceed 370 touches in a season–Barkley had 370–tend to regress significantly and/or get injured within the following season. That form of mileage is not type to the human physique, however maybe if anybody can carry such a load as soon as extra, it is the participant who’s nicknamed for his enormously massive quad muscle tissues. Catch “SaQuads” and the remainder of the league in Madden NFL 26 later this summer season. Extra information on the sport is coming quickly, beginning later this week right here on GameSpot.