NCAA Football is back. After a long hiatus, held up by the fact players were not being paid for their likeness, the iconic video gam series is all set to make its return. EA Sports dropped the first teaser trailer for College Football 25 last week. A full reveal of the game is set to come out in May.
A revival of the series has been in the works since 2021. Once the Supreme Court ruled that college athletes could profit off of their name, image, and likeness (NIL) it opened the door for the popular series to come back. Now EA Sports will actually be paying players to use their name and likeness in the game. A change from back in the day where the athletes in the game would not really have any resemblance to their real-life counterparts.
But while their faces never appeared in the games, they did appear on the box art. NCAA Football released 21 games between 1993 and 2013. Players like Robert Griffin, Tim Tebow, Charles Woodson, and Reggie Bush all graced the cover. Denard Robinson was the last player to be on the cover before they stopped making the game. But there has been a lot of great college football played in the time since.
So who missed out on their chance to be a cover athlete while the game was on hiatus? Andrew Salciunas put together a list of 7 guys who definitely would have appeared on the cover in the past decade. These are the guys who took the College Football world by storm. Who easily would have made it on the cover if there was a game to be on the cover for.
Here are 7 College Football Players Who Didn’t Get to Be NCAA Football Cover Athletes:
