There are too many non-improvable skills on this game. Some like SP, INT, Acceleration, and DI make sense. Passing Arm and Pass Catching courage kind of make sense, but skills like kick catching make absolutely no sense. The best KR/PRs in the NFL have to practice their skills just like everyone else. It would also make so many 6 and 7 round picks actually valuable on a team. How many 100 SP WRs with no receiving skills or 100 SP RBs with no running back skills get generated. Those players may be worth keeping if a skill like Kick Catching was improvable.

I agree.

Improving the value of consensus 'Late Round Picks' could go a long way in improving those 'niche' positions, as you suggested with Returners.

I think Arm Strength should improve... and decline... as well. It should improve early and decline late, but it shouldn't be huge. Something like a +5/-5 from the Generation Point. So a QB could start with a 75 Arm Strength, move to 80 by his 3rd or 4th Season... and near the end of his career fall off to 70.

You see a lot of guys get gains in Strength, and we all see QBs lose that arm late. Even Elway in his final Season, while still having a Stronger Arm than 99% of the League, didn't have as strong an arm as he did 5 years in. So the explains why it should Decrease.

And guys like Brady and Brees showed improved Strength... some feel if Tom hadn't gotten a stronger arm he'd never have become the QB he became.

Now this does suggest that many never really improve it... which is fine, most would fall in that +1/-1 Range, but some guys could have a greater swing.

Even if this really just affected a few guys in any meaningful way, it could have a major impact felt for multiple seasons.