Madden NFL 22 launches August 20 on Google Stadia and PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5 and Windows PC. The covers' stars are mut coins madden 22 quarterbacks from last year's Super Bowl -- Tampa Bay's Tom Brady and Kansas City's Patrick Mahomes, both of who have been featured on Madden covers before (Brady for Madden NFL 18, Mahomes for Madden NFL 20). The most up-to-date features listed here, such as Next-Gen Stats, the home field advantages, and brand-new game day visuals and atmospheres will not be available on PC or the old consoles.
Two G.O.A.T.s: Tom Brady, Patrick Mahomes and Tom Brady share the 'Madden NFL 22 cover
Tom Brady didn't quite pass the torch to Patrick Mahomes in Super Bowl LV, but Tom Brady did take on a future fellow cover star.
Brady Mahomes and Brady will be sharing the cover of Madden NFL 22, EA Sports announced on Thursday just a little over a year after the two squared off on the biggest stage of the game.
EA Sports teased the pairing with a video posted Monday featuring former Browns running back and Madden NFL cover athlete Peyton Hillis and two goats. In the clip, Hillis is shown taking knees with the goats while talking on the phone, telling the unidentified person on the phone "they repeated it."
EA Sports introduced a new feature that's never before seen for two generations of consoles. It's been a decade since Hillis was featured on the cover of the Madden NFL series' annual entry, and it's been even longer since the game had a dual-athlete cover.
Madden hasn't seen two players take over the valuable real estate that's the cover of the game since Madden NFL 10 in which Cardinals receiver Larry Fitzgerald and Steelers safety Troy Polumalu appeared on the front, appearing as if they were about to collide. This was the perfect match for the game in the year that was constructed around a novel system that allowed players take on a ball that was loose and compete for additional yardage -- the inches we speak of that so often determine the outcome of a game.
A few years later, Hillis was the cover model of Madden NFL 12 in the most stunning of fan vote upsets. EA chose him as the perfect pitchman in its teaser trailer released on Monday, and the buy Madden nfl 22 coins deceitfully veiled message was clear by Thursday night: Hillis goats were simply stands-ins for two G.O.A.T.s.