Report: Titans' Young to be on cover of Madden NFL 08
Tennessee Titans quarterback Vince Young has been chosen by EA Sports to be on the cover of the video game Madden NFL 08, according to ESPN.
Tennessee Titans quarterback Vince Young has been chosen by EA Sports to be on the cover of the video game Madden NFL 08, according to ESPN.
Young was a rookie last season and led the Titans to an 8-8 record. In his final year at the University of Texas, he led the Longhorns to the national championship in the 2006 Rose Bowl with a 42-39 win over defending champion USC.
He was the first quarterback selected in last year's draft.
"To have my face on the cover of Madden, it means so much to me, my family, and my friends," Young said. "It's a phenomenal feeling, because you know everyone plays Madden. With my past and my history - for me to get here, it means so much. It shows young kids that anybody can make it, if you work hard enough."
Young started 13 games for the Titans and led them on a six-game winning streak late in the season.
Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb was on the cover of Madden NFL 2006.
Noteworthy
* Green Bay Packers receiver Koren Robinson will finish a jail sentence by serving the final 45 days on electronic monitoring and working at a local hospital. He was sentenced to 90 days in jail for fleeing police last August in Minnesota when he was with the Vikings. He began serving the sentence March 9 at a facility near Minneapolis.
* Safety Abram Elam and defensive tackle Montavious Stanley agreed to 1-year contracts with the Cowboys.
* Defensive end Nick Eason, an unrestricted free agent who played for the Cleveland Browns the past two seasons, signed with the Pittsburgh Steelers.
* The Kansas City Chiefs resigned veteran defensive tackle James Reed to a 3-year contract. Reed, a free agent, started 15 games in 2006. The former seventh-round pick out of Iowa State had 42 tackles, 10 quarterback pressures and a sack.
* The Buffalo Bills have retained restricted free-agent defensive linemen Tim Anderson and Anthony Hargrove. Both players accepted tender offers. Anderson, the Bills' third-round pick in the 2004 draft, has been a part-time starter at defensive tackle the past two seasons.
Hargrove, acquired in a trade with St. Louis in October, is a 3-year veteran who finished with 25 tackles and a sack in 10 games with Buffalo. The defensive end's best game came when he had six tackles in Buffalo's season finale against Baltimore. *