EA Sports College Football 27 is out today for MVP+ members and EA Play subscribers.
On PFN’s latest episode of “The Hot List,” Oliver Hodgkinson revealed his picks for the top-five most underrated offensive players in the video game, starting with Utah quarterback Devon Dampier.
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Dampier enters as the No. 10-ranked quarterback in the game, which is a surprise given the season he just had. In his first year at the Power Four level, he threw for 2,490 yards and 24 touchdowns against 5 interceptions, then added 835 yards and 10 scores on the ground. He was the sixth-highest returning quarterback in the country with an 88.5 QB Impact Score and his film matches the analytics.
Dampier has cleared 6 yards per carry across his college career and piled up more than 30 rushing touchdowns, the kind of ground production that translates straight to video games.
“A 5’11”, 210-pound juggernaut who is a legitimate dual threat, it’s a Michael Vick-level video game cheat code,” Hodgkinson said, arguing that Dampier is not only the most underrated QB in the game but the most underrated offensive player overall.
Texas State’s Brad Jackson is the other quarterback the game underrated. Jackson opens as the No. 23-ranked quarterback in the game with an 86 overall rating, but PFN rates him 11th among returning college passers with an 86.7 QB Impact score. His numbers back it: 3,224 passing yards, a Texas State single-season record 71.3% completion rate that also topped the Sun Belt, 9.2 yards per attempt, and 17 rushing touchdowns.
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He runs G.J. Kinne’s offense into the rebuilt Pac-12 this fall as one of the most complete returning quarterbacks in the league.
“This is a kid who is extremely underrated on a team who has been significantly underrated ahead of their transition to the Pac-12,” Hodgkinson said. “G.J. Kinne’s offense should be one of the most fun to use in EA Sports College Football 27, and Jackson is set to prove himself as the top Group of 6 quarterback as the 2026 college football season unfolds.”
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Wyatt Young is the 15th-best receiver in the game, which feels a bit low. At North Texas in 2025, Young caught 70 passes for 1,264 yards, third in the FBS, and scored 11 total touchdowns, including a stretch that produced an American Conference record 295 yards against Rice.
He was the top college receiver in PFN’s WR Impact Score thanks to a “ludicrous” 424.6 yards after the catch over expectation. He follows quarterback Drew Mestemaker to Oklahoma State, where a Big 12 schedule will test the profile these ratings are betting against.
“This is a kid who’s used to blowing expectations out of the water,” Hodgkinson said. “He’s underrated right here. EA Sports should make him equally unstoppable in the game as he is in real life… I think you will see him ending up in the final rankings a lot closer to the top of the tree than he is right now.”
Rounding out Hodgkinson’s top five are Vanderbilt RB Sedrick Alexander (the No. 67 RB in the game but a top-10 back in PFN’s metrics) and Duke TE Jeremiah Hasley (the No. 11 TE in the game but the No. 2 returning tight end in PFN’s metrics).
EA Sports adjusts them through the season, and this group has a history of forcing the issue. The players who spend the fall in Dynasty and Ultimate Team will find the value long before the roster files catch up.
