College Football 25 Recruiting Tricks to Have Fun and Dominate in the Process

[Steve_OS]

When I first put together an all-in-one recruiting guide for College Football 25 for this newsletter...

Written By: Chase Becotte

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[tessl]

My recruiting "secret" is to understand what attributes do and scout a lot of recruits to find the attributes I want at each position. If they have excellent development trait that's a bonus.

[sherrane]

Good article. Interesting that you had a Bust that also had the Star development trait. Has anyone else noticed that there seem to be more Impact / Star / Elite Development types in recent releases? In September I started listing all the Normal players in a document that identified the players I would encourage to transfer if I over-recruited. Generally about half the players I would recruit would go on this list where they would stay until they transfer or enter their Senior season. I am getting fewer Normal players recently. I had a recruiting class of 23 players last weekend and only 6 were Normal, which is about half of what I was getting a couple of months ago. Could this be a result of my program getting better and I'm attracting better players?

[georgiafan]

Great article it was cool seeing my guy get the shootout. You mentioned some position changes which I'm all about. Has anyone seen what position a Athlete power rusher can play ?

I would love to be able to move him to TE, but I'm not sure if they have any offensive skills. My system for TE's is block first and he has the strength and athletic ability I like. I'm thinking the catching for those types are non-existent as well as blocking.

[TheShizNo1]

Thanks for this. Awesome article!

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[untakenid]

Quote: Originally Posted by georgiafan

Great article it was cool seeing my guy get the shootout. You mentioned some position changes which I'm all about. Has anyone seen what position a Athlete power rusher can play ? I would love to be able to move him to TE, but I'm not sure if they have any offensive skills. My system for TE's is block first and he has the strength and athletic ability I like. I'm thinking the catching for those types are non-existent as well as blocking.

You can train most players to play most positions because of the way position changes work with offseason training.


Keep him at his natural position his FR year and redshirt him, then move him the following offseason (when he's listed as FR (RS)). Don't worry about the projected OVR on the position changes screen, as he'll most likely get a huge boost in offseason training.


I'm not sure how it would work for a power rusher moving to TE, but if you don't mind a little cheese, take a deep threat WR with 93+ acceleration, move him to DE, and watch what happens.

[georgiafan]

Interesting I would have thought it would be best to move him right away and then redshirt him. I will have to run some test doing this. I like to keep my position changes toward the realistic side so I've not tried anything crazy. So see a athletic DE being a TE I like, but I was worried as I don't think he will have catching or blocking skills or the team player badge

Quote: Originally Posted by untakenid

You can train most players to play most positions because of the way position changes work with offseason training. Keep him at his natural position his FR year and redshirt him, then move him the following offseason (when he's listed as FR (RS)). Don't worry about the projected OVR on the position changes screen, as he'll most likely get a huge boost in offseason training. I'm not sure how it would work for a power rusher moving to TE, but if you don't mind a little cheese, take a deep threat WR with 93+ acceleration, move him to DE, and watch what happens.

[untakenid]

Quote: Originally Posted by georgiafan

Interesting I would have thought it would be best to move him right away and then redshirt him. I will have to run some test doing this. I like to keep my position changes toward the realistic side so I've not tried anything crazy. So see a athletic DE being a TE I like, but I was worried as I don't think he will have catching or blocking skills or the team player badge

There's a flaw in the programming where certain player attributes end up getting maxed out when changing positions. I'm wondering if the game isn't "updating" a player's position skill groups until after training and it's causing certain skill groups to be either super cheap or free to upgrade.


I had a 4* physical WR ATH who ended up being 74 OVR at WR. He would've been a 78 OVR Vertical Threat TE if I had moved him in the offseason before training. Instead, I first moved him to C, where he ended up being 75 OVR. His run block went all the way up to 99. I then went to the player edit screen and changed him to TE... 95 OVR.



You can also move QBs who aren't likely going to play to K/P. Their kick power and accuracy will usually go all the way into the 75-85 range during training. If you run fake punts/field goals from time to time, now you have specialists who can actually throw.


Deep threat receivers generally have the best acceleration stat in the game. If you move one who has 93+ acceleration to DE, you'll likely get platinum Quick Jump ability, which IMO is the most overpowered ability in the game.



Again, it's a flaw in the game's programming I don't condone exploiting this for playing against other users, but it can be fun to play around with in offline dynasties.