Based off of what I read in the Franchise blog, they added Depth Chart Logic to the game. Basically, the backups would play the entire 4th preseason game. Also, Bellanca alluded to checking your progress to the top of the depth chart.
Hopefully this means that my starters will come out even earlier in the first and second games. Also, this could explain why Lonyae Miller was at the top over Felix Jones and Marion Barber in the earlier screens. I can't imagine they added and retuned all these things and forgot to address a dealbreaker like automatically becoming the starter.
And you thought the QB camera was bad? I played WR in HS, and I did every RTG/SS as one. Or, at least tried, haha. Running routes were so horrible because you had to move the stick in relation to where you were on the field. So if I'm flanked out to the left, Because the camera was panned sort of diagonally, I couldnt move the stick up, then to the left to run an out route, I have to move it in a clunky fashion that I can't even describe, haha.