How and When to Make Position Changes in College Football 25 Dynasty

Building a legacy in College Football 25 Dynasty Mode is not a quick process, and you'll often have to make decisions that have a long-term full year impact on your team. Whether you're trying to decide how to approach recruiting or want to get the most of your existing roster, position changes can make a huge difference.

If you're hesitant to swap any players to a new position, knowing which positions adapt best will help you make that call. With all the game's different schemes in mind, this guide breaks down how and when you should make position changes on your College Football 25 roster.

Which players can switch positions in College Football 25?

Near the end of each season on National Signing Day, you'll be given the prompt to make position changes for some players. While the position change prompt only appears on your Weekly To-Do List once a year, you can actually change any player's position at any time by viewing their Player Card from the roster and going to Edit Player on the far-right of that screen. You can also swap some players into out of position roles via the depth chart, but only the Edit Player option or the National Signing Day position changes screen will let you change to any position. 

Doing this for National Signing Day makes the preview of the overall rating someone might have at a different position easier to see, whereas Edit Player changes will require you to back out and view the player at their new position to know how their overall rating was impacted or check ratings which don't show up on their existing position. The biggest benefit of making sure you've got moves made on National Signing Day is that it'll ensure their offseason training is focused on that new position, and that can sometimes net a big boost for specific ratings needed in their new role.

Best Offensive Players for Position Changes

Pretty much all offensive line roles in College Football 25 are interchangeable, and players that move to a different spot will probably have the same overall rating. If you're making these changes with your roster needs by position in mind, you can simplify some areas like aiming to have about 18 total offensive linemen and adjusting their positions later on.

You'll usually want a better pass blocker at left tackle and a better run blocker at right tackle, and it helps to have a center who is capable at both. Left guard and right guard are fairly similar and pretty interchangeable, but you may want to take a look at your playbook and keep in mind which you're usually leaning on for running plays.

If your favorite running plays have a tendency to pull specifically the left or right guard as a blocker, you probably want the best run blocking guard in that spot. If you feel like your quarterback is always being blasted by a defender coming in on the left, you can try swapping a better pass blocker in at left guard to see if that makes a difference.

Similarly, many tight end players slot perfectly into fullback or offensive line, and some offensive line players will even work as a fullback or a blocking tight end. The biggest risk here is putting someone in with poor catching stats and relying on them during a passing play, so situational substitutions or ensuring you keep tight ends with solid catching at the top of the depth chart is best if your playbook employs lots of tight end passing routes.

Some halfbacks and wide receivers can swap between those positions, but it's also dependent on specific ratings like catching. Keep those important ratings in mind before making these swaps, and aim to make them before offseason training when possible. There's also a chance that you could put a receiver or halfback at quarterback and see real success, but it's more difficult to check throwing ratings unless it's National Signing Day. If you've got a backup quarterback with good speed and carrying ratings, they might see more success at halfback or receiver.

Best Defensive Players for Position Changes

On the defensive side of the ball, things are fairly interchangeable at each layer of the formation. Defensive line players can swap, linebackers can swap, and corners and safeties can swap. However, defense tends to be more particular to scheme and benefits from specific skills at different positions, so players built specifically for defensive tackle may have better luck there than at defensive end and vice versa.

If you're making defensive changes, always try to do them ahead of offseason training. Players running a 4-2-5 Defense will need linebackers and defensive backs that are versatile enough to defend the run or the pass, and someone who prefers a 3-3-5 Defense will wanna make sure their linebackers are agile enough to attack the gaps or drop into coverage when necessary.

If you're using a Base 4-3 Defense, your defensive line should be able to handle both stuffing the run and breaking through to put pressure on the opposing quarterback. This does put more pressure on your linebackers and secondary to handle any potential passing plays or runs that break through that initial line. On the other hand, a Base 3-4 Defense is going to push harder on QB pressure for the line and will put some of the run blocking responsibility on linebackers more often.

These general rules should help you have an idea of when switching players to other positions has value, but the sheer volume of College Football 25 playbooks means that there's almost always going to be a formation that breaks some of these guidelines. The best way to prepare for this is by testing out your scheme in Free Practice.

If you want to test things in a live game situation, remember that you can return to the hub in the middle of a game and rather than getting an automatic loss you'll have to start that game over. Go into your next weekly game, and just back out and restart before it ends if things have gone sideways because you were figuring out adjustments. It'll take time to get comfortable with all of these potential changes, but now you've got a foundation to work with in College Football 25.