Madden should add an "eras" aspect to Franchise
My roommates and I play both Madden franchises and 2k MyNBA leagues together, and something new that 2k added was an "eras" aspect where you can choose what "era" of the NBA to start your league in. For example, the LeBron era begins in the early 2010s, the Steph era begins in 2016-17, and it even goes back to the Magic v Bird era in the 1980s, but there is still an option to start in the present. Depending on what era you choose to start, each subsequent year's draft classes would feature the actual people drafted that year (ex. if you start in the LeBron era, you have the option in the future to draft players like Giannis, Jokic, Anthony Davis as rookies). I think Madden could totally implement something similar, and it would be cool to play with guys like Peyton Manning, Tom Brady, Chris Johnson, etc. when they are rookies as opposed to needing to download user-created draft files for that.