First, a notice. NEVER use this in the first season of a franchise. Only seasons 2-30. Also, make a backup before proceeding.
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Now, onto business. This requires TWO franchises. A main one, and a second one.
1. Start a new franchise with any roster. Simulate to the next season.
2. When you reach the retirement stage of season two, save and quit Madden.
3. Open your franchise in the DB editor and extract a CSV copy of the PLAY table. Close the DB editor when finished.
4. Play your main franchise until you reach the post-draft rookie signing stage. Save and exit.
5. Open your franchise in NZA's editor 1.3. Go to the global edit tab, and make some global ratings changes to lower the ratings of the rookies. I saw -20 awareness should be good for now. Save and quit.
6. Open your main franchise in the DB editor and extract the PLAY table as a CSV.
7. Open the PLAY CSV of the second franchise (the one from steps 1-3) in Excel. Find every player from the draft class (team ID 1015, I believe. Might be something else, but it is not 1008, 1009, 1010, 1011, or 1014.) Change each draft class player to team ID 1009.
8. Open the CSV of the main franchise. Make sure you keep BOTH CSVs open for now.
9. In the CSV of the franchise you just edited in step 6, copy every rookie from the draft class.
10. Paste the copied players into the main franchise CSV. There should be 256 new players. They will serve as your 'undrafted rookies'. When finished, look for a number that appears in the right-most column in the top row. It should be a four digit number. It shows how many players are in the file. Delete this number.
11. Save and exit Excel.
12. In the DB Editor, you should still have your main franchise open. Import the edited CSV with the new rookies. It should show an increase of 256 columns. Save when the import is complete.
13. Load the franchise in NZA's editor 1.3. Go to the free agent team, and look for the rookies you added. They should have low ratings because of step 5, but some may still have high ratings. Lower fundamental ratings of every player that is too highly rated to pass as an undrafted rookie. I generally shoot for 65 or lower overall rating, but occasionally I let high 60s pass. Re-rate any undrafted rookies as you see fit, and save the franchise. Before quitting the editor, you may want to do an overall recalculate as well, and then save again. After you do whatever you need to do and save, quite the editor.
14. Load your franchise in-game, sign your rookies, and when you advance to the post-draft free agent signing stage, you should see 256 new rookies available to sign. Have fun reaching 90 players with a LOT of rookies!
If there is anything you don't understand, feel free to ask questions.