EA Sports unveiled the cover athletes for College Football 27 on this week, putting Indiana coach Curt Cignetti on the Deluxe Edition and giving the standard cover to Miami receiver Malachi Toney, Oregon quarterback Dante Moore and Ole Miss running back Kewan Lacy. The reveal lands now because the game is set for a full unveiling on June 4 and is scheduled to reach players next month.
Toney is not just another face on a video-game box. He was a 17-year-old freshman when he broke Miami’s single-season receptions record with 109 catches, then helped the Hurricanes reach the national runner-up finish in the 2025 season. Lacy brings his own weight to the cover after rushing for 24 touchdowns last season, six more than any other Power 4 running back, while Moore returns to Oregon after weighing a leap to the NFL.
EA framed the standard cover as a snapshot of the game’s modern era, and the company said its three-player group — Lacy, Toney and Moore — was meant to represent that. The Deluxe Edition stretches that idea farther, adding Jayden Maiava, Colin Simmons, Leonard Moore and Cignetti. That extra layer matters because the coach sits alongside active players on a cover that is otherwise built around the sport’s current stars.
It is also a shift from last year, when the standard cover featured Ohio State’s Jeremiah Smith and Alabama’s Ryan Williams and the Deluxe Edition leaned on a larger mix of players and coaches. This time, the covers spread the spotlight across Miami, Oregon and Ole Miss before expanding to Indiana and a few more names on the premium edition, a layout that underscores how EA is trying to sell College Football 27 as both a player-driven game and a broader portrait of the sport right now.
EA said the full reveal of College Football 27 will come on June 4, and that is the date that now carries the real weight. The cover athletes are in place. What remains unanswered is how much EA will change on the field when it opens the rest of the game, and whether the new edition will lean as hard on presentation and depth as it did on the names printed across the front.
