Take the Podium for the 2024 Draft with NFL Rivals

Can you believe it’s been a full year since we launched the game, Rivals?

It’s been a wild year and we’ve enjoyed every minute of fun with you. The NFL Rivals team is so grateful to all the players who’ve tried our game and built rosters of collectible cards for the best players in the league. Now, we’re back to the Draft with another fun program.

We have a new program currency rolling out we call Caps, with the usual 4:1 conversion from the previous program currency: 10,000 Boom tokens can be turned into 2,500 Caps. There will also be new cards and packs as usual, along with 2 new weekly events awarding Caps: Roster Rush on Tuesdays and Podium Pursuit on Thursdays.

As with last year, the new rookie cards will not feature artwork, player names, teams, or positions right away as we won’t know who’s been drafted yet. After the NFL Draft takes place in Detroit, we’ll update the cards to match the 32 first round picks: the first 10 picks will be Legendary, the next 10 will be Epic, and the last 12 will be Rare.

Past Draft Greats are back for chase cards, which will celebrate some of the top NFL players who were not selected in the first round of their respective Drafts.

New Tiered Events

We’re making some big changes to the weekend chase events to make them more competitive and engaging for all players, starting with the first Legendary chase event coming in the Draft program. Players will be entered into different prize pools based on their League ranking, such that Gold Tier will be exclusive to players competing in Leagues 7-9, Silver Tier will be exclusive to players competing in Leagues 4-6, and Bronze Tier will be exclusive to players competing in Leagues 1-3.

The prize tiers have been adjusted to provide commensurate value for players in those Leagues, so they will only be competing against players in their tiers and receive a prize worthy of the competition they faced. All tiers will still be able to earn the maximum allotment of the virtual program currency (Caps for the Draft program) available to anyone participating in the chase event, as long as they achieve the score threshold.

We made this change to bring a deeper sense of competition to the weekend chase events and the Leagues system, while also giving everyone a relatively equal shot at winning a great prize. Prizes in the Program Store are still available for all players to attain for Caps, the same as in previous programs. Also note that the tiering system for chase events has replaced the event requirements needed to enter.

New Rewards for Year 2

To celebrate the first anniversary of NFL Rivals and hype everyone up for the start of Year 2 in August, we’re launching a new rewards system for players who make in-game purchases and spend their Gems. Whenever players buy a pack containing players or blueprints bought with Gems or Apple/Google Pay or earned as part of the Power Pass progression system, they will earn a limited-time game resource called Keys, which can be used to collect special “Cases” that will unlock at the start of Year 2.

From now until Kickoff, collect Keys and redeem them for Year 2 Cases. Collect 3 of these Year 2 cases to obtain a bonus reward or collect all 5 Year 2 cases to unlock a more powerful bonus reward. We’re overjoyed to be here for another Draft and heading strong into another NFL season, so we wanted to create a new layer of fun for all our players as we race to Year 2.

Note: Gem pack purchases will start rewarding Keys at 11am ET on Tuesday, April 30.

The Powerful Potential of Rookies

Rookie card upgrades are also back, with each card from the packs able to gain up to +30 PWR by the end of the upcoming NFL season. There are three scenarios available per position that will each offer a +10 PWR boost — one for the early season, one for the late season, and the last one will complete if the player is named to the All-Rookie list at the end of the season

Early season

• QB: Score 4 or more TDs in first 5 games
• RB: Score 2 TDs in first 5 games of the NFL season
• WR: Have 14 or more catches in first 5 games of this season
• TE: Have 8 or more catches in the first 5 games of the season
• OL: Play 300 snaps or more in the first 5 games of the season
• DE: Record 2 sacks or more in the first 5 games of this season
• DT: Record 10 or more total tackles in first 5 games of the season
• LB: Record 22 or more total tackles in the first 5 games of this season
• CB: Record 1 or more interceptions in first 5 games of this season
• FS/SS: Record 1 or more interceptions in first 5 games of this season

Late season

• QB: Throw for 2,800 yards or more this season
• RB: Gain 1,000 or more total yards in this season
• WR: Gain 800 or more receiving yards this season
• TE: Gain 500 receiving yards or more this season
• OL: Give up 4 sacks or less this season (500 snap minimum)
• DE: Record 7 or more sacks this season
• DT: Record 2 or more sacks this season
• LB: Record 70 tackles or more this season
• CB: Record 3 or more interceptions this season
• FS/SS: Record 3 or more interceptions this season

We’re so proud to have made it to our first anniversary as a game and we’re so happy to have you here with us for another NFL Draft. See you on the field, Rivals!