Madden NFL 25 Blog - Position Changes Are In

[Steve_OS]

EA Sports has confirmed position changes are back for Madden NFL 25. You can make these changes in the offseason of your Connected Franchise. Commissioners will have the ability to limit position changes as well.

Players will also see their ratings accurately reflect their position change based on the realistic difficulty curve of changing positions in the NFL. If for example you want to move Tebow from QB to TE, he will receive an awareness penalty to reflect such a drastic and difficult position change. If however, you are a little deeper at Right Guard, you can opt to move one to Center with no ratings penalty.

Source - Position Changes in Madden NFL 25 (EA Sports)

[Tweeg]

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Groundbreaking.

[imskykid]

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While overall this isn't new information, the announcement did come with a few interesting tidbits. I like that when you move a player to a foreign position there will be an awareness hit when necessary. Hopefully this applies when moving a player from OLB to DE. In the past a 85 OVR OLB could soar to 99 DE with the switch. Scheme and player types will help this too.

Also, while we knew you could import a custom roster to offline CFM, there was still some confusion about whether a comish could import one online. Now we know they can (though good luck getting an entire 32 player CFM to unanimously agree on a roster file).

[The_Wise_One]

Always wondered how Russell Wilson would do at defensive tackle.

[nate1986]

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Sounds pretty cool, I'd move RG3 to running back

[Gronk4M13]

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Not new news, but good nonetheless.

[goh]

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I'm guessing the awareness hit is strictly posistion based as opposed to a per player situation? EX: Denard Robinson or Julian Edelman would take the same hit moving to QB as Arian Foster or Greg Jennings.

[Gman 18]

I'll move Michael Jasper to QB

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[Cryolemon]

I'm guessing the awareness hit is strictly posistion based as opposed to a per player situation? EX: Denard Robinson or Julian Edelman would take the same hit moving to QB as Arian Foster or Greg Jennings.

I'd guess so, but you would assume that Robinson and Edelman would have better QB ratings than others, so their OVR rating at QB would still be higher even with the AWR hit. Of course that assumes that they do give players like Edelman and Robinson better passing ratings than normal non-QBs.

[Boomdox]

I can now move Jamarcus Russell to Defensive Tackle.

[JibberSkin]

Good, solid (re)addition to the game.

[Tengo Juego]

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Position changes are in; does that mean that they've also lightened up on cross-position play? i.e. Can Patrick Peterson play WR? Can Randall Cobb play RB? Can Percy Harvin play RB? Can Joe Webb play QB? All while remaining at their current, respective, position?

Limiting it to an off-season action is a bummer. Say you switch Tebow to TE and Brady gets injured for the season. You probably want to play Tebow at QB. Having the ability to start a player at any position has been abused when it was possible in last-gen Madden, but it doesn't make banning it justified. There is legitimate use for it.

One of my favorite position swaps was moving Reggie Bush to WR. He was so damn good as a slot receiver. I want to be able to have fun like this, again, with position changes.

[jtswag187]

what about as a player, like change yur position

[IrOnKoBe]

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this is stupid

[youALREADYknow]

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It will be a bad thing if AWR is the only change when shifting positions. That seems underwhelming considering the move of a higher SPD position to a lower SPD position is known to be overpowered in this game.

Why not also have an impact on things such as Play Recognition and Consistency?

The good news out of that article is the ability for the commissioner to control which position changes are allowed. Hopefully that's a full feature and not watered down.