Madden 24’s cover star is the Buffalo Bills’ Josh Allen

Josh Allen, the All-Pro quarterback for the NFL’s Buffalo Bills, graces the cover of Madden NFL 24 — both its standard edition and its deluxe edition. It’s the first time the Bills have landed a player on the league’s official video game.

EA Sports

EA Sports

Madden NFL has had an annual cover-star since the beginning (with Eddie George as the first). Madden NFL 2001), 19 of the league’s 32 teams have been represented on the cover, some of them (New England, Baltimore, and Pittsburgh for example) more than once.

Buffalo’s debut on the Madden cover leaves 13 teams that have yet to place a star on the cover, among them, weirdly, cornerstone franchises like the Dallas Cowboys. Obviously, a lot of this depends on EA Sports’ signing a player, individually, to front the cover of the video game.

Allen was drafted by the Bills in 2018 with their first round pick, bringing him from Wyoming to Buffalo. Allen was selected to the Pro Bowl twice (in 2022 and 2020) and made second team All-Pro in 2020.