Alright so I said earlier I wanted to do a little research on this. And I have been reading the Kaepernick stuff. And there was an article posted by USA Today about the Madden Dev team. And one said this, "the NBA has a different licensing agreement with their players then the NFL does with theirs. In the NBA, if their tattoos are on their skin, they are technically owned by that player and can therefore be used in games and what not. In the NFL, they are owned by the artist."
So something must've changed in the year +.
And here's a good article about why you can't show your tats in a videogame without permission.
http://hyperallergic.com/145999/why-...n-video-games/