Sorry Madden fans, Cardale Jones won’t be in Madden 16

Sorry Madden fans. You'll have to at least wait until Madden NFL 17 to play as Cardale Jones.

The Ohio State 3rd string quarterback, that led the Buckeyes to to a College Football Playoff National Championship 42-20 win over the Oregon Ducks, announced today that he will be returning to Ohio State for the 2015-16 season. In declining entry into the NFL Draft, the redshirt sophomore quarterback will have a chance to build his draft stock if he performs well over the course of a whole collegiate football season.

Jones was promoted to starter after season-ending injuries to Braxton Miller and backup J.T. Barrett. Jones had three starts — a Big Ten title, Sugar Bowl title, and National Championship, in which he threw for 2442 yards and a touchdown and ran for another score.

Cardale Jones is a 6'5" 250-pound monster on the field that's athletic and has a strong arm. In Madden, that's the combination everyone looks for. If he declared for the draft, he probably would have been the third or fourth-ranked quarterback, after Oregon's Marcus Mariota, Florida State's Jameis Winston, and UCLA's Brett Hundley. After a three-game resume, it could be argued that he has more upside than any of them, but there's also the risk that he'd be more of a Jamarcus Russell in the NFL.

Based on Madden 15 rookie quarterback ratings, Jones would have been rated somewhere in the mid-70s to high-60s. Last year, Bortles was the top-rated rookie QB at 78, and he went number three overall.

So it looks like we will have to wait another year to get an official (non-player created) Cardale Jones in Madden. And then everyone can cheese online with him.

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