Changing WR's to CB's in Dynasty Mode...

[ehh]

I was in the off season of my Penn State dynasty, between Year 2 and 3. I had about seven WR's on the depth chart and three vet CB's and a buncha frosh after them. So I decided to take Jason McDonald, a redshirt junior WR and move him to CB. 6'2" 200 lbs, 89 for speed, 87 for catching or something along those lines.

When I initially went to change him, the screen told me he'd be a 76 overall CB. Not bad I thought, he'd be my 4th corner for dime packages. So I make the change and continue w. my off season duties.

Then I get to the player progression portion of the offseason and I'm shocked to see that the top improver on my team is McDonald who jumped 12 overall points up to an 88 as a cornerback! He moved up to the starting CB opposite Justin King.

So far in three games he has two INT's (one for a TD) and a fumble recovery. He gets burned every now and then on slant/post patterns but overall he's been a pleasant surprise.

I never knew that changing positions was a crapshoot like that. I like how you can't tell how good a player will really be when you make the initial change. I'll play around w. changing positions alot more in the future.

Anyone else had success like this?

[Mizzou23]

I had a post similar to this issue...the reason he increased so much is because his speed rating dropped when you moved him, and then increased back to what it should be during training. That's the reason for the large improvement overall, during training his speed probably went up 5-10 points.

[clayshime]

You can do that with pretty much any WR, as long as he isn't a true freshman. When you change his position, you'll see that his ratings (speed, etc) go down from what they were. After training, they go back up to where they were or a little better, with low awareness due to the new position.

I have had a few rare occasions when I moved a guy, his speed never recovered. That hasn't happend with the WR to CB change though.

[CM1847]

It works the other way sometimes. I moved a fast FS to CB once so he could be my nickleback, but he didn't progress well after and he got passed by two guys and never played for me. I don't think I have tried the WR to CB move yet, I need to if it works that well.