Earlier this yr, San Francisco 49ers working back–and final yr’s Offensive Participant of the 12 months–Christian McCaffrey was named the duvet athlete for Madden NFL 25. However sadly, McCaffrey has been positioned on injured reserve with calf soreness and Achilles tendinitis. As a part of the IR designation, McCaffrey will miss not less than the primary 4 video games of the season.
Through ESPN, McCaffrey had a historical past of accidents when he was a member of the Carolina Panthers in 2020 and 2021. For these two seasons, McCaffrey performed in 10 video games complete. Since arriving in San Francisco, McCaffrey has performed in 32 out of the 49ers’ 33 video games. However given McCaffrey’s latest look on Madden NFL 25’s cowl, his harm has reinvigorated speak in regards to the so-called Madden curse.
The late John Madden was primarily featured on the duvet of the video video games that shared his title previous to 1998. As soon as NFL gamers had been featured on the duvet, it gave rise to principle that there was some type of Madden curse that will doom the duvet athletes to both an harm or a subpar season. CBS Sports not too long ago ran an evaluation of the Madden curse by trying again at what occurred to the final 24 athletes who appeared on the duvet. 14 gamers both suffered an harm or had diminished taking part in expertise afterwards.
In fact, the most definitely clarification for the Madden curse is that soccer is a brutally bodily recreation that wears down even the strongest our bodies. Solely a handful of gamers make it although their careers with out lacking video games to accidents. However that in all probability will not cease the Madden curse conspiracy theorists from pointing to McCaffrey as the most recent sufferer.