Will the ‘Madden 22’ Cover Feature Tom Brady, Patrick Mahomes?

Will ‘Madden 22’ cover feature Brady, Mahomes? originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston

It won't be too long before EA Sports releases this year's installment of its football video game, "Madden NFL 22", and the company's new teaser video released Monday has fans feeling pretty excited over which players might be on the cover.

Here is the teaser:

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Even former cover athlete @thepeytonhillis didn’t see this coming…

🐐 6.17.21 | 10am ET 🐐 #Madden22 pic.twitter.com/xiriLClQx3
— Madden NFL 22 (@EAMaddenNFL) June 14, 2021

The main theme -- aside from the revelation the cover will officially be unveiled Thursday -- is obviously the two goats, which hints at multiple players being on the cover. It wouldn't be an unprecedented move, either. Steelers safety Troy Polamalu and Cardinals wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald both graced the cover of "Madden NFL 10".

The two goats also has many people predicting Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady and Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes will be on the cover. Brady would serve as the old "GOAT" with seven Super Bowl titles while Mahomes is the baby "GOAT" ushering in a new generation of ultra-talented quarterbacks.

We've partnered with Strat-O-Matic, the market leader in sports simulation to build simulation experiences for "What If Wednesdays.” In this edition, we asked how the 2020 season would play out if Brady stayed in Foxboro. Here is a look at how the simulation played out with a ton of data. Then, Trenni Kusnierek is joined by Tom E. Curran and Phil Perry to talk about the results, where both Patriots Insiders don't see things working out as they did in the Strat-O-Matic simulation.

A Brady/Mahomes cover would be awesome. They arguably are the two-best quarterbacks in the league and just played against each other in Super Bowl LV, with Brady's Bucs winning 31-9.

Fans of other teams might be upset, though, and one of the reasons for that could be both Brady and Mahomes already have been on a Madden cover recently. Brady was on the "Madden NFL 18" cover and Mahomes was featured on the "Madden NFL 20" cover.