Sean Landeta Madden Career 1992-2005 - Peak 92 OVR
Sean Landeta Madden NFL 2005 rating

Sean Landeta Madden Career 1992-2005 - Peak 92 OVR

Position
P
Team
Height
6'0"
Weight
215
College
Towson
DOB
Jan 6, 1962
Madden
1991-2004
88OVR
2004 Current
92OVR
Peak 1995
10
Seasons Played

The whiffed punt in Chicago, then 22 seasons

Sean Landeta's most famous punt is the one he never hit. In a January 1986 playoff at a windblown Soldier Field, he swung his leg and the ball skipped off the side of his foot, and the Bears scooped it up for a touchdown. He spent the next two decades making people forget it. Landeta came out of Towson and the USFL's Philadelphia Stars, won two titles there, then joined the Giants and added two more rings in Super Bowls XXI and XXV. He earned three first-team All-Pro nods and made the All-Decade teams of both the 1980s and 1990s.

He kept going long past when punters usually quit, suiting up at 44 as the oldest man ever to punt in an NFL game across a 22-year career. Madden charts the back half of that marathon. He is a curious 40 in the 1996 edition, jumps to 83 by 2000, slides to 67 in 2001, recovers to 82 in 2002, and tops out at 89 in the 2003 game before settling at 88 the following year.

Sean Landeta Madden Career Milestones

  • Peak rating: 92 OVR (calculated) in Madden NFL 1996
  • Appeared in 10 Madden releases (Madden NFL 1992 through Madden NFL 2005)
  • Entered at 79 OVR in Madden NFL 1992, climbed 13 points to his peak
  • Biggest single-year rise: 30 points into Madden NFL 1996
  • Played for 4 franchises: Giants, Rams, Packers, Eagles
  • Listed as a special-teams player in every Madden release
  • Final Madden appearance: Madden NFL 2005 at 88 OVR

Sean Landeta Madden Career Ratings

Scale (starred* rows) Only the starred 1-15-era seasons convert; modern rows stay 0-99.
Madden Team Pos OVR Speed ACC AGI STR JMP STA INJ TGH AWR THP TAS TAM TAD CAR CTH RBK PBK TAK KPW KAC KRN
1992 *
1991 NFL season
Giants P 79* 26 - - - - - - - 0 - - - - - - - - 0 86 73 -
1993 *
1992 NFL season
Giants P 62* 26 - - - - - - - 0 - - - - - - - - 0 79 46 -
1994 *
1993 NFL season
Giants P 62* 26 - - - - - - - 0 - - - - - - - - 0 79 46 -
1996 *
1995 NFL season
Rams P 92* - - - - - - - - 99 - - - - - - - - - 79 86 -
1997
1996 NFL season
Rams P 40 66 57 61 - 73 37 - - 24 - - - - - - - - - 98 89 -
1999
1998 NFL season
Packers P 69* 44 14 44 39 - - 0 - 95 - - - - - - - - - 78 88 -
2000
1999 NFL season
Eagles P 63* 38 39 46 39 - - 84 - 80 - - - - - - - - - 81 83 -
2003
2002 NFL season
Eagles P 82 26 23 29 19 26 65 81 28 - 23 - - - 24 30 28 19 12 84 89 -
2004
2003 NFL season
Rams P 89 26 23 29 19 26 85 21 28 93 23 21 21 21 24 30 28 19 12 86 92 0
2005
2004 NFL season
Rams P 88 45 43 45 19 26 85 21 28 96 23 - - - 24 30 28 19 12 87 90 -
How to read these: Each row is the player’s rating in that year’s Madden, listed by the NFL season it covers (Madden NFL 2001 = the 2000 season). Madden sets its ratings before the season is played, so they reflect the previous season’s performance - a player’s breakout year tends to show up as a jump in the following year’s game.
About the starred rows*: Several early Madden releases rated players on a 1-15 scale, as printed in the game manuals, rather than the modern 0-99. We store those ratings converted to 0-99 (each manual point is about 6.6) so you can compare players across eras at a glance - use the 0-99 / 1-15 toggle above the table to see the original numbers on those seasons. EA didn’t publish an overall rating in those games, so the OVR* values for those years are our own calculation, the average of the player’s two best ratings.
Note: Some Madden releases tracked fewer attributes than others. Cells shown as - were not published by EA that year.

Sean Landeta Madden Ratings by Year

Sean Landeta Madden NFL 1992 rating: 79 OVR (1991 NFL season, NYG). Sean Landeta Madden NFL 1993 rating: 62 OVR (1992 NFL season, NYG). Sean Landeta Madden NFL 1994 rating: 62 OVR (1993 NFL season, NYG). Sean Landeta Madden NFL 1996 rating: 92 OVR (1995 NFL season, STL). Sean Landeta Madden NFL 1997 rating: 40 OVR (1996 NFL season, STL). Sean Landeta Madden NFL 1999 rating: 69 OVR (1998 NFL season, GB). Sean Landeta Madden NFL 2000 rating: 63 OVR (1999 NFL season, PHI). Sean Landeta Madden NFL 2003 rating: 82 OVR (2002 NFL season, PHI). Sean Landeta Madden NFL 2004 rating: 89 OVR (2003 NFL season, STL). Sean Landeta Madden NFL 2005 rating: 88 OVR (2004 NFL season, STL).