ESPN NFL 2K5 Draft Guide 

Here are some decent tips for those who don't know: 1.Overalls don't matter, stats do. You can draft some 60 overall players with 80+ in all important stats. 2. For WR's, just look for the best hands. They will jump up the highest overall by the start of the next year. 3. Most teams pick RB's with their first pick, so try and avoid them. They are usually better options to trade for, like Deshaun Foster or Kevin Jones. 4. When you're done drafting and DGAF anymore, just draft safeties. They tend to be the best players last, and you can get players anywhere from 65-69 overall, which is great.

First round (by the computer) is exclusively OT, QB, HB, and DE. Do not EVER draft another position in the first. Trade that #15 pick (or whatever pick you have) for the 1st pick in rd 2. Also, no matter how great an OT is, the computer will never take him higher than #6 overall. A cheesy hack I discovered is to trade your 1st, 2nd, and 5th to whatever team is picking first overall in rds 1 and 2. (So, you trade away your 1st, 2nd, and 5th for the other team’s first and second.) That way, for a net “loss” of just a 5th round pick, you can get the best overall rookie at QB, DE, or HB, and the best player at any other position at the top of the second. A little cheesy, I know. But to me, any 1st round pick after about #8 or 9 is garbage compared to what you can get at the top of the second. (And pay him far less as well.)

The CPU controlled teams will only draft certain positions in the 1st Round (I believe they are QB, HB, T, DE. So the 1st pick of the 2nd Rnd (Pick 33) allows you to grab the best player at any other position (G, WR, DT, CB) - which makes 2nd round picks a lot more valuable in this game. Every player has a built in "Potential" rating that can't be seen, only viewed as time goes on and you can see the progression season by season. This "potential" rating is the ONLY thing that affects a players growth (after each preseason), it is not affected by season performance, game reps played, etc. So a player is either going to progress or decline each year no matter what, based on this invisible "potential" rating. Other notes- As far as drafting QB's, I user control every game so the Pass Read Coverage rating doesn't really matter. I'd rather covet QB's with high Pass Strength and Durability plus Speed helps. Also when drafting DB's I value the Coverage rating alot more than Speed, especially when playing a predominantly zone heavy defense (Cover 3, Cover 12,). But if I'm drafting a SS who is mostly playing in the box and hardly ever playing deep zone- I'd rather him have high Tackle rating and Run coverage over Speed. Just my preference. I also feel this way about Speed ratings and WR's - the Route Running is what gets the players open and they need to be able to catch the ball. Unless your plan is to send the guy on a "Go" route every time you want guys that can get open and make catches in traffic. There's a lot more I could say about overall team building as far as depth, cap management, trading, etc. but this was more of a reply to things you talked about in the video. This game is amazing. The only thing wrong that I have to nitpick about is the salary glitch when putting a player on IR.

Appreciate you! This video just changed my entire Franchise approach.

I just go to edit player ....(without modification). To see who was the college all-star.. by the uniform they have in that screen... They developed that first year like crazy

A pair of 6’6 wide outs is crazy if u get them to develop

The thing that people don't understand about NFL 25K and drafting rookies is that when you scout a rookie THEY HAVE TO BE ALMOST PERFECT AT EVERY RATING THAT MATTERS FOR THE POSITION THEY PLAY or else you are going to be drafting duds.

I just do it like this turn on edit rookies and edit the rookies and trade older players for first round 1 st second round 1st third round

Glad I found this. Before I would just cheat by seeing who everybody else drafted then check their ratings after to see and then leave Franchise mode and go back in before the draft and select them 😂😂😂 I was tired of drafting duds that had good scouting reports with actual low ratings while the cpu drafted ppl with mediocre scouting reports that were starting caliber rookies

Great video

Ray do you edit your rookies? I know i do but not for them to come out all super powerful 70 to 75 overall is oky with me

Some times is best to check the phone to see who the best player needed for the team

Do you have videos of you rebuilding every team or just one team

Bro sounds like Draymond Green 🤣🤣🤣

Don't know if you need alot of help on your team but maybe should have trade away a few old players and players couldn't resign and got some extra draft capital

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