Madden 24 Superstar Career League mode not working

Upon purchasing Madden 24 my biggest wish was to play a fun career mode. I can proceed as normal through character creation until I finish editing league settings. However, after attempting to create a new career/league with my character, the game stops loading. It goes to the basic black loading screen and does not respond to any keybinds, even ones to exit the mode (essentially a softlock). If I force crash the game and try playing once more with the same character, it will say a league has already been started, but upon trying to "continue" it, I am stuck in an endless loop of continue league > black screen > continue league > black screen, etc. 

This happens no matter the position I choose, and editing/not editing the character seems to have no effect. I can play franchise mode just fine. Any solutions for this? I play on Win11.