Old Rookies

[TheMeat]

In my MP career, I have a very good but old QB (14th Season) who I like but I've been looking to replace him, since I got this old QB in his 9th season and I would like to draft a new guy and start building some career stats.

So lo and behold the best QB ever comes out of the draft, every bar almost max, great combines, perfect except one thing..... He's 25 and will turn 26 after the 4th week of his rookie season.

Weird part about my current QB is that he's 31 and has played 13 seasons.... the league is only 5 years old so he wasn't acutally drafted, just generated but according to that he started playing when he was 18?????? Musta finished high school early like Amobi Okoye ;)

So this young god is only 7 years younger than my 14 year vet, bizarre and shitty. What I'm wondering is how long could I expect the rookie to play for? After 12 seasons he'll be 37 and if he retires then his career will be stunted, I want a QB who can play 15+ seasons for me. Anyone with experience drafting old ass players, I know that they tend to retire early but what's the oldest QB anyone's seen?

[Firefly]

I remember reading that it is factor, but not like in real life. So your old QB might play a bit longer and your young QB a bit less. Not too sure how much, but I wouldn't worry about it overmuch

[MalcPow]

It's a small factor, but nothing incredibly significant from what I've seen. I'd have no qualms taking the 25 year old QB.

If you did an allocation draft with a random roster at the start of your game, you'll see guys like your old QB. The age-experience generation is off with random rosters. It doesn't seem to really affect gameplay much, those guys will take their 7-10th year aging hits like anybody else, even if they're in their 20s still.

[TheMeat]

Thanks for the replies, I will be drafting the QB a couple hours from now and feel a lot better about it.

It was hard letting my old QB go, he has won the MVP in each of the 5 seasons we've run since starting the league, a record which will probably never be broken but it woulda been nice to try for 6.