I thought about this after losing my qb to a season ending injury, having to insert my RS Freshman backup to start for the remainder of the season in my OD. When young players come into a ballgame at quarterback, they generally do not have the entire playbook at their disposal. It's the same for young players at other positions, except in a different way.
1: Dynamic Awareness: Make practice correlate to how much of the playbook your young qbs can use. They don't have to play in the practice for the sake of the game, but it would be nice to see "mandatory practice" sessions. These could be simmed for the sake of the user, but I think as a freshman qb you need so much practice time to have learned the pb. If you put a freshman or even sophomore qb in the game, your pb should be more limited than when he's a junior/senior. Just simply take plays systematically out of the pb for younger players with X amount of practices (or allow the user to mark up the most important plays/formations to learn to least important). If that is too deep with practices, just make it X amount of games while in the program (this would include redshirting, making it important to redshirt guys while also making it worth it to use lower rated, upperclassmen). The catch would be that the learning curve is faster when a player is playing significantly in games.
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