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Before we get started, there are a few logistical Madden 23 ltds questions to think about in real life, mainly revolving around age and contracts. Would real-life Tom Brady be drafted among the top players? I still think the answer is yes. But the real-life team that drafted Tom Brady is probably going all-in on a win-now team, so their draft might be different than others.
As for contracts mattering, the answer would be somewhere between "I don't know!" and contract slot values. My best guess would be something along the lines of slotted contract values for draft position, or maybe even slotted values for each football position (the first quarterback drafted makes X, the second drafted makes Y, and so on).
Like I said earlier, there's no real information to cite in a real-life version of this scenario. No Excel spreadsheet says Aaron Donald is a 99 in real life, and that 99 is final for everyone. The closest thing we have to view how teams value certain positions is the NFL Draft. So that's what I'm using. And despite Kevin Durant's pleas, we will "look at graphs while having a [football] convo."
In the last 20 NFL drafts, only three positional groups have been selected number one overall: quarterbacks, defensive ends and offensive tackles. The last time someone outside of those three positions went number one? WR Keyshawn Johnson in 1996 (it worked out). This was the year before running back Ki-Jana Carter went number one to the Bengals (it did not work out).
There's an old saying that football games are won in buy madden nfl 23 coins the trenches. Maybe that's true, or maybe football games are won over the course of 120 mathematical coin flips as two grown men try to out-guess what the other one's doing. Who knows? But the data suggests that football coaches and front offices believe that games are won and lost up front, on both sides of the ball, and that's what matters here.
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