Yeah, that's really lame, if that's the case. The best use off that camera angle should be for a defensive single player.
You could create the guy, just do select the play defense before the game in the play the moment menu, and then lock and get the screen with him that way, to get the same effect.
You could create him in a draft class even, and then just take control of whatever team drafts him, to add that unknown.
Hopefully they can just patch that back in.