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Peyton Manning debuts as official Madden ratings adjuster 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 adjuster.

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