Defensive awareness is more valuable for a two way defender as opposed to a defensive defenceman. For example, in create a player, when you don’t edit any attributes except for the defensive awarenes...
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That's because the weight allocation for Defensive defenseman uses both Defensive stats and Physical stats. Two-Way really only uses the awareness IQ as the dominant stats.
It's likely so defensive defensemen aren't growing to an insane 95 overall just because their defensive stat got boosted high.
Probably for the best that their physical stat plays a heavy weight to their overall