Madden 23 Wishlist: 10 Things We Want To See

5. Better NFL Draft Picks

Madden 23
EA Sports

This is specifically for AI teams in Franchise.

Seeing the Chiefs draft a highly-rated rookie QB when they have Patrick f'n Mahomes is wild. Coaches should be smart enough to draft what they need, not just players that have high overall ratings. Andy Reid would crack some skulls if his GM went out and wasted a pick on someone who wasn't going to play one snap all season.

It's also irritating that this often takes valuable players away from squads that could use them, which isn't how the real NFL works. That's not how the league is set up - NFL top brass go out of their way to make sure that weaker teams can right the ship if they make shrewd draft choices.

Sure, this is a minor gripe, but a deceptively-important one in the context of how the sport is managed. Madden wants to balance arcade gameplay with sim elements, so EA has to fix this pronto. It's strangling development in Franchise.

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