Madden 17 vs Madden 16: What’s New

Smarter Aggressive Catches in Madden 17

The new Madden 16 Aggressive catch feature is fun, but it is overpowered and it didn't really take player ratings and styles into account. 

For Madden 17, EA is listening to player feedback and toning this down. EA shares, "We now restrict those extremely athletic, high degree of difficulty catches to the more elite ball in air receivers only. OBJ, Julio, A.B., Hopkins and Dez are the type of players who will have the ability to do those spectacular catches consistently," adding that running backs and slot recievers will perform catches that make sense for them. 

Injury chances are also increased when perrmingin aggressive catches, so you won't want to go big on every play.