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Peyton Manning debuts as official Madden Ratings Adjustor and grades Tom Brady, Derwin James Jr., others

Peyton Manning takes football very seriously. You saw it when he played. You heard it in his Hall of Fame speech. And Manning, in a mockumentary-style video released Friday, said it was all leading to one critical goal.

Becoming a Madden ratings adjustor.

Manning is kidding, of course. The ratings adjustor program didn't begin until 2018, after Manning retired, and didn't start incorporating former NFL players -- Chad Johnson is the most active adjustor of the NFL alumni -- until last year. One of the game's first adjustors was the son of an NFL legend -- Barry J.