When EA Sports activities Faculty Soccer 25 releases in July, customers will have the ability to play with a few of school soccer's greatest stars, corresponding to Quinn Ewers and Travis Hunter. Nonetheless, gamers of the online game franchise may solely marvel what it could be wish to play a few of the sport's greatest stars of the previous decade.
There are gamers like Lamar Jackson at Louisville, Justin Jefferson at LSU and Caleb Williams at Southern California. There's additionally Christian McCaffrey, who was a human lead when he was at Stanford. Now that school soccer is able to return in online game type, the previous Stanford star and Madden 25 cowl athlete needs he could possibly be within the sport.
“That may be nice,” McCaffrey informed USA TODAY Sports activities. “I'm excited in regards to the new sport. I believe it's so cool that they're bringing it again.”
McCaffrey has by no means appeared in a sport since he started his school profession in 2014, a yr after EA Sports activities launched the final model of the sport — NCAA Soccer 14. However he's not giving up hope to see what it could be wish to see him placed on a Stanford uniform once more.
“I don't know the logistics of how they're going to try this, however I'm praying that there's a 2015-2016 Stanford group that you would be able to select to play with,” he stated. “I believe there's plenty of guys which are going to be enthusiastic about it.
McCaffrey added that he hopes he can be a extremely ranked participant if his Stanford group was included within the sport, but it surely's protected to say that could possibly be dishonest.
He had a breakout sophomore season in 2015, breaking the NCAA single-season all-purpose yardage report with 3,864 yards and 15 touchdowns. He completed second to Derrick Henry within the Heisman Trophy voting and had among the best performances in Rose Bowl historical past, racking up a Rose Bowl report 368 all-purpose yards in a win over Iowa. Stanford received the Pac-12 title and completed the season 12-2. In 2016, McCaffrey nonetheless had a strong season with 2,327 all-purpose yards and 16 touchdowns.
There was no information from EA Sports activities about legendary groups within the sport, but when they ever are available in a future model, Stanford with McCaffrey will seemingly be the favourite.