Leinart leads a high-powered offense and many are picking the Cardinals to be a sleeper team this year (aren't they a sleeper every year?) to make the playoffs. No agent, no money, no cover (how else do you think Desmond Howard ended up on the box?). You see, Leinart was all but inked to be on the cover of NCAA Football 06 when he did the unthinkable and went back to school. Matt Leinart Will be on the cover because… EA owes him one, or maybe he owes EA. Here are the ten players with a shot at being on the cover of Madden 08, complete with analysis and betting odds (when is betting on cover athletes hitting Vegas, anyway?). What's next, Shane Lechler on the cover of Madden? Not that I wouldn't like to see a better adaptation of the coffin corner kick in the game, but if Zabransky can be on the cover of NCAA, why not Lechler on Madden (or half the NFL for that matter)? That's why I'm here to breakdown the contenders from the pretenders. In fact, the question was a lot easier to answer before EA's marketing group went a little crazy (or if you refer to the sickness of poor decision making by name, Matt Millen) on us, and in a draft with the names Calvin Johnson, Adrian Peterson, JaMarcus Russell, and Brady Quinn, decided to put Jared Zabransky on the cover of NCAA Football 08 (is EA relocating to Boise?). But with EA these days, it's not so simple.

So who will be on the cover? If this was Midway, we all know they'd be making the 'Pacman Jones on the cover of Blitz' announcement any day now.

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