Fans will soon get a new NCAA college football video game with, EA Sports College Football reaching an agreement to compensate athletes for the use of name, image and likeness.
That means a whole new era of college athletes will get an opportunity to see themselves in a video game and perhaps even as the cover athlete before reaching the NFL. But what of the players who should have had their moment and opportunity over the past 10 years?
The last game from EA Sports, NCAA Football 2014, featured Michigan Wolverines QB Denard Robinson on the cover. Our friend Patrick Conn of College Sports Wire recently explored which athletes could have since been the cover athletes. While he thinks the 2017 edition of the classic video game franchise would have featured Lamar Jackson on the cover, he also considered the possibility that Mahomes could have landed on the cover too.
Mahomes’ team might not have won very many games, but he put up those ridiculous video game numbers in 2016. Not to mention who can forget the number of NCAA records set in the Oklahoma-Texas Tech matchup that season. Mahomes finished 2016 with 5,337 yards of offense and was responsible for 53 touchdowns.
Mahomes certainly had the statistical numbers to garner consideration, but the fact that his team didn’t win a whole lot of games and didn’t compete for championships really would have hurt his cause. Conn certainly isn’t wrong about that barnburner with Oklahoma, though. That would almost certainly be the game that a moment worthy of the video game cover would come from.
The record-setting performance saw 125 total points, which was the second-most all-time between ranked opponents. Mahomes came a yard shy of the record for the most pass attempts in a single game (88) and tied the NCAA record for passing yards in a single game (734).
Patrick Mahomes II shattered multiple NCAA marks against Oklahoma to be the @Dickies hardest working performer of the week. #DickiesWorkwear pic.twitter.com/5YDGXwL5HU
— FOX College Football (@CFBONFOX) October 25, 2016
With what we’ve seen from Mahomes in the NFL, he’d gladly trade all those stats and numbers for the win.
