Just a thought, as I put in another thread that this may be related to Progressive Fatigue and the Weekly Training. I had looked at my Franchise at about Week 17/18 and saw some of my starters especially the skill positions were pretty fatigued and coming out after the first play. Saw that the settings for Trainings were for Starters and Full Pads. (to be fair I had seen some info about this elsewhere). I went back from a save point earlier ins the season and adjusted my Training Set-Up to be Split Squad & Uppers. Seems to have mended the issue. Seems that in years past the Weekly Training had the Auto option for the CPU to adjust the trainings based on fatigue. I should add that my players seemed super tired in the first iteration of this season during the later weeks and I have seen much better performance out of them so far.
Just a thought, maybe it helps.
