He outlines the games of the current week with his co-host Trey Wingo who talks about the latest injuries and free agent deals and trades during the season.

The teams the celebrities use are The Buartville Funkmasters, Cincinnati Electra Shock, LA Dreamteam, Los Angeles Locos, and the Upper Darby Cheesesteaks.

Andrew Reiner echoed this sentiment in the review's "Second Opinion" section, calling ESPN NFL 2K5 "the greatest football game to date.

[2] Alex Navarro of GameSpot recommended NFL 2K5, noting superior offensive gameplay, special teams, online play, features, presentation, graphics, and sound.

I say this without reservation", while Buzz stated, "Each season, Sega's ESPN NFL series has been making steady progress in its quest for video-game football stardom.

During the same time period, sales of NFL 2K5 reached 3 million combined units across all consoles, and it was the 23rd highest-selling game launched for either the PlayStation 2, Xbox, or GameCube.

[26] Since its release, numerous websites and publications have ranked ESPN NFL 2K5 as one of the greatest sports video games of all time, listed as 44th by Bleacher Report in 2011.

[28] Yardbarker included NFL 2K5 in an unordered list of the 25 best sports games of all time, noting that, "For a brief moment, there was a true challenger to the Madden hegemony.

In 2014, Owen S. Good of Polygon wrote that NFL 2K5 was "sports video gaming's King Arthur, eternally populist, noble and heroic, champion of an age long ago enough to make its triumphs soar and its shortcomings recede to nothingness."

[31] In December 2010, a U.S. district court judge certified a class action anti-trust lawsuit against Electronic Arts for anti-competitive practices to proceed.

[32] Electronic Arts settled the class action suit in July 2012 for $27 million (equivalent to about $36M in 2023), and retained its exclusive NFL license.