Check out these fantasy football player rankings instead! If you want to experience the story for yourself, you should stop reading. Warning: The following posts contains major spoilers for Madden NFL 21’s Face of the Franchise mode. Madden 21 includes a story-based single-player mode called ‘Face of the Franchise,’ where you play through an amateur career before making it to the pros – and it might just be the worst story mode we’ve seen in a sports video game yet. EA Sports’ Madden NFL 21 releases on August 28th, but the game dropped early for EA Play subscribers.