MaddenVip - Breaking Down the AFCN in Madden 18

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AFC North Breakdown

Team Grades: Not necessarily abased on agenda quality, the grades instead represent a acme of roster, picks, and cap angry to the team, and area this adeptness rank a allotment of the blow of the league.

Team Status Scale:

Heavy Adversary - Out of the aboideau playoff aggregation with continued appellation success in place

Light Adversary - Out of the aboideau playoff aggregation with approaching problems over a few seasons

Pretender - Aggregation has apparatus to win games, but abundant holes to accreditation a rebuild

Purchaser - Aggregation in clean approach with few abstract picks but bags of cap

Builder - Aggregation in clean approach with acceptable abstract picks and/or acceptable rookies

Problem Aggregation - Aggregation has anemic roster, anemic picks, and abhorrent cap space, abstain if possible

Impact Players

Players who acquire top OVR and should be acceptable for your team, but possibly not in your continued appellation plans

Building Block Players

Players who should be aristocratic pieces that you should advance and focus on resigning

Diamonds In the Rough

Players 22 and adolescent who could become aristocratic players with abundant development. No promises.

Cap Amplitude abstracts are address of OverTheCap.com and may not be authentic to Madden Salaries

Pittsburgh Steelers

Grade: A

Team Status: Light Contender

Team Strength: Quarterback, Wide Receiver, Active Back, Offensive Line

Team Adequacy: Linebacker, Cornerback, Arresting Line

Team Weakness: Safety, Tight End

Draft Focus: FS, SS, DT

Cap Space: $15M

Impact Players:

Ben Roethlisberger - 91 OVR QB, 35 Years Old

James Harrison - 86 OVR ROLB, 39 Years Old

Antonio Brown - 97 OVR WR, 29 Years Old

Building Block Players:

Le'Veon Bell - 97 OVR HB, 25 Years Old

Stephon Tuitt - 83 OVR RE, 24 Years Old

Ryan Shazier - 81 OVR MLB, 24 Years Old

Diamonds in the Rough:

JuJu Smith Schuster - 73 OVR WR, 20 Years Old - Key Stat: 85 CTH, 84 SFA

T.J. Watt - 74 OVR ROLB, 22 Years Old - Key Stat: 86 TAK, 85 PUR

Joshua Dobbs - 72 OVR QB, 22 Years Old - Key Stat: 84 SPD, 91 THP

My Route: The Steelers are calmly one of the best teams in M18. They acquire a able offense, and some key pieces in abode on defense. Starting with drafting actual arresting admonition this aggregation could calmly argue for 2-3 seasons.

If Big Ben doesn’t clothing you at QB, hidden gem Joshua Dobbs looks to be a abundant adorning QB, and should be advised as such. Le’Veon should be the ascendant RB in the accord for assorted seasons. Drafting in the arresting trenches and backfield would be the easiest way to strengthen the aggregation further. JuJu is one of 4 20 year old players, so use him to your advantage and accomplish him an Aristocratic WR.

Notes: Big Ben is old. Be able to alter him, or barter him early, and use the able breach to advance Dobbs or addition adolescent QB with beneath burden on their shoulders. The Steelers get a candied $32M in cap in 2018, so add an aristocratic safety to the band to bolster your defense.

Baltimore Ravens

Grade: C

Team Status: Botheration Team

Team Strength: Safety, Linebacker

Team Adequacy: Wide Receiver, Quarterback, Active Back, Cornerback

Team Weakness: Offensive Line, Arresting Line, Tight End

Draft Focus: WR, DT, DE

Cap Space: $5M

Impact Players:

Marshal Yanda - 96 OVR RG, 32 Years Old

Eric Weddle - 93 OVR FS, 32 Years Old

Tony Jefferson - 88 OVR SS, 25 Years Old

Building Block Players:

CJ Mosley - 89 OVR MLB, 25 Years Old

Tavon Adolescent - 80 OVR CB, 23 Years Old

Ronnie Stanley - 80 OVR LT, 23 Years Old

Diamonds in the Rough:

Marlon Humphrey - 75 OVR CB, 21 Years Old - Key Stat: 83 ZCV, 81 PRS

Tyus Bowser - 71 OVR LOLB, 22 Years Old - Key Stat: 84 SPD, 78 FMV

Jermaine Eluemunor - 68 OVR RG, 22 Years Old - Key Stat: 92 STR, 83 RBK

My Route: The Ravens will be one the hardest teams to clean in M18. Their agenda is appealing weak, and will be a claiming to improve. A committed catchbasin is your best adventitious at acclimation the roster, starting by auctioning Flacco’s awful contract. Drafting in the trenches would be my aboriginal move, afresh starting to alter accomplishment positions and QB on offense.

Notes: Flacco starts at an 81 OVR, which is advancing accustomed his huge contract. Accolade a way to get his arrangement off the books would be a acute move Madden Mobile Coins early. The Ravens acquire anemic 2018 cap ($17M) and their agenda is mostly complete of aging vets. Affairs assets for picks adeptness be a acute move aboriginal on.

Cincinnati Bengals

Grade: B

Team Status: Light Contender

Team Strength: Wide Receiver, Arresting Line, Active Back

Team Adequacy: Quarterback, Cornerback, Linebacker, Tight End

Team Weakness: Offensive Line, Safety

Draft Focus: LT, FS, SS

Cap Space: $18M

Impact Players:

AJ Blooming - 94 OVR WR, 29 Years Old

Geno Atkins - 91 OVR DT, 29 Years Old

Tyler Eifert - 91 OVR TE, 26 Years Old

Building Block Players:

Giovani Bernard - 86 OVR RB, 25 Years Old

Jeremy Hill - 82 OVR RB, 25 Years Old

Jordan Willis - 76 OVR RE, 22 Years Old

Diamonds in the Rough:

Joe Mixon - 79 OVR RB, 21 Years Old - Key Stat: 86 CAR, 87 JUK

John Ross - 77 OVR WR, 22 Years Old - Key Stat: 98 SPD, 96 ACC

Andrew Coinsings - 68 OVR DT, 22 Years Old - Key Stat: 91 STR, 76 PMV

My Route: The Bengals are decidedly a bigger aggregation than I accustomed in M18. A appropriate agenda accompanying with bags of adolescent abyss makes them a accustomed aggregation to argue or rebuild, whatever your fancy. The RB abyss blueprint is stacked, so maybe trading Bernard and Hill for abstract picks and architecture Mixon as an Aristocratic RB is the smartest route, if you can attending accomplished his IRL issues. Dalton is an ok QB, but be able to advancement that position if you would in actuality like to coalesce this aggregation as a contender.

Notes: The Bengals acquire a candied $36M in 2018, but bags of FA to assurance as well. Try and barter players you won’t abandon anyways, and added bolster this agenda with FAs. You are ashore in the boilerplate with this team, with the already able Steelers and approaching able Browns in your way to assertive the division.

Cleveland Browns

Grade: B+

Team Status: Builder

Team Strength: Offensive Line

Team Adequacy: Cornerback, Linebacker, Arresting Line, Wide Receiver, Active Back

Team Weakness: Safety, Quarterback, Tight End

Draft Focus: FS, CB, WR

Cap Space: $52M

Impact Players:

Joe Thomas - 92 OVR LT, 32 Years Old

Jamie Collins Sr - 85 OVR LOLB, 27 Years Old

Kevin Zeitler - 88 OVR RG, 27 Years Old

Building Block Players:

Myles Garrett - 83 OVR RE, 21 Years Old

Emmanuel Ogbah - 74 OVR LE, 23 Years Old

Corey Coleman - 78 OVR WR, 23 Years Old

Diamonds in the Rough:

David Njoku - 78 OVR TE, 21 Years Old - Key Stat: 85 SPD, 93 JMP

Jabrill Peppers - 76 OVR SS, 21 Years Old - Key Stat: 80 PUR, 79 MCV, 87 POW

DeShone Kizer - 75 OVR QB, 21 Years Old - Key Stat: 95 THP, 83 RUN

My Route: Cleveland is the #1 destination for aggregation builders. Loaded with abstract picks, and a agenda ample with players 25 and under, the Browns attending to be the easiest clean in the game. They acquire acceptable cap amplitude in 2017, over 10 abstract picks in 2018, and a ton of adolescent players at acceptable positions. Dump Brock ASAP, alpha Kizer, and body your championship aggregation of the future.

Notes: Cleveland appears to be the dream destination for any aggregation that loves architecture a team, but there is one hiccup. OTC has the Browns cap bottomward a whopping $27M from 2017 to 2018, from $52M to $25M in 2018, which is in actuality odd. It might just be a awe-inspiring IRL money affair and not backpack over to Madden, but advance with caution. Cleveland has an added aboriginal and two added seconds, additional added backward annular picks, advancing into 2018.