[brandon27]

I believe it's a Mass Substitution happening. In a blowout game, or once it believes the nail is in the coffin, when the 4th quarter rolls around, the game automatically does a mass substitution to put in your 2nd team offense & defense. It's been that way for years as far as I can remember actually. Especially if you use super sim at all as the game is winding down.

If you want your starters back in, at the start of the drive go back to the strategy portion of the menu, and into mass subs, and swap them back in. It does them all for you at once, you dont have to go to depth chart and do it one position at a time. The mass subs feature is great to have, but I dont see why the CPU automatically decides when we should use it.