Madden NFL 25 Cover Vote Championship: Barry Sanders vs. Adrian Peterson

[RaychelSnr]

Today ESPN SportsNation announced that Barry Sanders will face Adrian Peterson in the final round of the Madden NFL 25 Cover Vote. The stage is set for an epic showdown as two of the greatest running backs of all time square-off. Voting highlights from the semifinals include:

• 1 million votes cast for the semifinals, 50K more than last year’s vote totals for the semifinals. Over 38 million votes cast overall in the Madden NFL 25 Cover Vote.
• Adrian Peterson posted the largest margin victory, with 68% of the vote against Arian Foster.
• Barry Sanders won with a slim margin victory defeating Jerry Rice, 52% to 48%.

It’s all too fitting that the Madden NFL 25 Cover Vote Finals come down to Barry Sanders and Adrian Peterson, two of the greatest running backs in NFL history. Sanders has cemented his place in NFL history with his 18,000 career yards, while Peterson came within nine yards of breaking Eric Dickerson’s single season rushing record last year. Making the feat even more impressive, Peterson had his incredible year after coming back from surgery for a torn ACL in the offseason.

Fans are invited to cast their votes at ESPN.com/MaddenVote through their PC or mobile devices. For the chance to “Maximize” votes, ESPN and Madden NFL 25 have collaborated with Pepsi MAX to promote Twitter live voting every Tuesday throughout the campaign, where tweets with each player’s respective Cover Vote hashtag will count as two votes. Double votes ends at midnight ET each Tuesday.

The winner of the Madden NFL 25 Cover Vote will be revealed live on ESPN SportsNation at 8 pm EST on Wednesday, April 24.


What do you all think? Seems convenient that a year EA Football seems to be focusing on the running game that you get a championship matchup of Adrian Peterson and Barry Sanders. Who are you voting for?

[The_Wise_One]

Let's go Sanders

[jjazwick]

Barry Sanders! If Madden is celebrating 25 years it needs to the greatest running back ever! To bad he left the game in his prime!

[TheBuddyHobbs]

Re: Madden NFL Cover Championship: Barry Sanders and Adrian Peterson

BARRY! BARRY! BARRY!

[TreyIM2]

I think Pat Summerall needs to somehow be squeezed in the cover. RIP, Mr. Summerall!

[darknmild]

I don't get it I voted for Adrian Peterson. Nothing against Barry Sanders but I guess we like dazzle without payoff. If this was NCAA yes Barry but NFL how did he get pass Jerry Rice and Joe Montana.

[Big_Mig_11]

Re: Madden NFL 25 Cover Vote Championship: Barry Sanders vs. Adrian Peterson

I don't get it I voted for Adrian Peterson. Nothing against Barry Sanders but I guess we like dazzle without payoff. If this was NCAA yes Barry but NFL how did he get pass Jerry Rice and Joe Montana.

because it's fixed at the end of the day and they want to promote their new freestyle running feature. What better way to do that then have a RB grace the cover.

I would really like to see a dual cover again. They will announce a tie

[ghettogeeksta]

Re: Madden NFL 25 Cover Vote Championship: Barry Sanders vs. Adrian Peterson

Something just don't seem right about this, two running backs in the finals? I find it hard to believe that both of these backs would beat out all the great Quarterbacks in this tournament. I think its setup to highlight Madden 25 big new game-play feature- new running mechanics like NCAA Football 14 has. I think Barry Sanders is going to win because he has been all over Sports Center lately.

[mestevo]

Re: Madden NFL 25 Cover Vote Championship: Barry Sanders vs. Adrian Peterson

The same claims would have been made no matter who was in the finals. If it was fixed Hillis wouldn't have ever been on the cover.

[ghettogeeksta]

Re: Madden NFL 25 Cover Vote Championship: Barry Sanders vs. Adrian Peterson

The same claims would have been made no matter who was in the finals. If it was fixed Hillis wouldn't have ever been on the cover.

No, I think this has something to do with it.

First Madden NFL 25 Screenshot, First Details on Run Free Ball Carrier Feature

[mestevo]

No, I think this has something to do with it.

First Madden NFL 25 Screenshot, First Details on Run Free Ball Carrier Feature

Yeah, you alluded to it mentioning the NCAA feature. It applies to all ball carriers, I still don't buy the annual conspiracy theory.

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[JaymeeAwesome]

I don't understand people not liking Barry Sanders. Just because he doesn't have a ring or winning record, he is still the most talented elusive back of all time. AP is in a close second and depending on how the rest of his years go, may even surpass Barry. I still want AP on cover over Barry though.

[EJ21]

Re: Madden NFL 25 Cover Vote Championship: Barry Sanders vs. Adrian Peterson

Barry Sanders for the win

[13whitebread]

I don't get it I voted for Adrian Peterson. Nothing against Barry Sanders but I guess we like dazzle without payoff. If this was NCAA yes Barry but NFL how did he get pass Jerry Rice and Joe Montana.

The big thing about Barry is that if he did not walk away from the game like Jim Brown did he would be your alltime leading rusher for running backs. But of course I am biased being from Detroit. But I do agree with you how he got passed Joe and Rice absolutely floored me. Heck they could have put both of those guys on the cover. But I would be shocked if they put a Detroit Lion on the cover back to back and to be honest I hate to say it but they just don't derserve it as a franchise. I would have rather seen a Red Wing on the cover of hockey but I do like Barry a lot he was the best running back I ever saw so far.

[ghettogeeksta]

Re: Madden NFL 25 Cover Vote Championship: Barry Sanders vs. Adrian Peterson

I don't see how these running backs got more votes than multiple Superbowl winning Qb's, Jerry Rice, and Dion Sanders, it don't add up.