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Who rates players in Madden NFL 20? Go inside the ratings process

MAITLAND, Fla. -- Andre Weingarten sticks his head through the space between the whiteboard and the edge of Dustin Smith's end-of-row cubicle. They watch one of three computer screens on Smith's desk. A YouTube video of Kyler Murray, the former Oklahoma quarterback who would become the No. 1 pick in the NFL draft six weeks later, is playing on one of them.

Together they watch. For hours. Daily. Prospect by prospect they go, the bespectacled 34-year-old Smith and the bearded 23-year-old Weingarten -- making the decisions for how digital players will rate in this year's Madden video game.