Postional Ratings Question

[elprez98]

Denard Robinson transferred to my team (Illini) last year. He's awesome of course, but I have a sophomore that has better QB ratings than Robinson. i didn't move him to receiver as I should have during position changes. If I play him at receiver, does he take a ratings hit, since I didn't change his position?

[elprez98]

Can anyone help me on this?

[ashamael]

only his awareness will take a hit. I've often used QBs as my 4th or 5th receiver. Works pretty well.

[Pogo27]

Quote: Originally Posted by ashamael

only his awareness will take a hit. I've often used QBs as my 4th or 5th receiver. Works pretty well.

This is correct. A player playing something other than his position will have lowered awareness. The player would have taken the awareness hit anyway had you changed his position (though I think the change position hit is less), but through training, he'd eventually get pretty decent awareness.


For a wide receiver, the two biggest things awareness impacts are

a) Choosing the right option on option routes.
b) Knowing when to break off the route to help out the QB.



So in English, when playing a quarterback in a Wide Receiver, don't

a) Send him on option routes--he'll essentially never get himself open.
b) Use him in formations with very few receivers unless you have a scrambling quarterback who can get himself out of trouble.