Best abilities for Specialist positions (SUBLB, Slot CB/WR, etc.)

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I’m very curious what the community has to say about this topic. I tried googling the question and surprisingly couldn’t find anything.

I am a fairly experienced player with 99 overall team. I have my own opinions on the matter however I wanted to get everyone’s feedback before sharing my thoughts so that yall‘s answers would be unbiased and based solely on your perspectives.

I know the answer is going to depend somewhat on playstyle and playbooks too. So I will say I run the Chiefs defense and use about 75% zone coverage with match on. I have a strong core D line so can usually pressure with just my 4 guys (Furious and Maniac with unstoppable force as my edge rushers) so I usually focus my play calling on heavy coverage (like nickel) instead of blitzing and when I do blitz its usually zone blitzes.

On offense I pass the vast majority of the time usually focused on conservative passes 10 yards or less that have a high chance of success and low chance of being picked. I use my HB for passes a lot too.

I don’t know how relevant that all is to my question but I figured it couldn‘t hurt to provide that info if you wanna factor it into your answer.

Thanks!

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The positions I’m especially interested in your thoughts on abilities are the SUB LB’s (since with chiefs def playbook and using mainly zone coverage it uses those guys WAY more than OLB’s and even MLB’s). Also am very interested in abilities for SLOT CB and WR vs just regular CB and WR.

And of secondary interest is whether it’s worth using different RB’s for regular HB vs 3rd down RB vs Power RB. Also if you have any thoughts on having different DL for standard vs rushing and if so different abilities.

THANKS AGAIN!

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Also if you have some extra free time I’d be interested to hear your opinions on what types of player stats you factor into choosing who to put into these specialist positions vs just the standard position lineup. and when you think it’s a good idea to have separate players in these specialist roles that aren’t on your starting lineup, vs when it’s better or doesn’t matter if you use the same player for a starting role and specialist role.

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On a side note, the reason why I’m even taking all the time to ask all of this is because it’s at the time of year where all the best players have plenty of 0 AP abilities and I’ve already sold my whole team to get all of the 99 Rookie Premier players and the 98s required to build the rest that haven’t released.

So my theme team is screwed so I don’t care about team chems or my Legends TT.

And so all the money and training I have left is just (in the words of Leo from Wolf of Wall Street: “fun coupons“ lol). And I have plenty of it left to expirement and buy whatever players I want to try any new suggestions you guys might have.

So I’m really excited to hear y’all’s thoughts and hopefully give me some new perspectives or ideas or ways of looking at it.

And as far as my potential players I can get or abilities I can use, the sky is really the limit.

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A lot to dig into here, I'll try to reply to one post at a time Sub LBS are usually the guys I user so the abilities are always PA/Acrobat, I used to run tackle supreme or secure tackler on those guys but have since moved all my ST and TS to my dline and typically if i can get there to make contact a dlineman will get there and finish it.

Slot corner, my defense is kind've unique but i Run DZKO, MZKO, PA on kyle hamilton in my slot, also run a zone match scheme and usually manually move him over the outside shoulder of the TE or Slot receivers. This helps him match out breaking routes better. When Picking a SubLB I look at a few things. First off Height and weight, height to close the middle of the field behind me, weight to keep from getting pancaked in the run game. Most cards are 99 speed, agility, accel with the sugar rush strat so i do not worry about those. next would be block shed. I do have a blitz setup that requires a smaller faster, more agile DB to run around lineman, and then the other i use julius peppers for the opposite reason, I need someone who is not going to get pancaked in the run game. Nothing worse than seeing 2 Sub LBs go down on pancakes and see a TE + FB running free at the slot corner with an HB behind them. Keep some usable linebackers with TS just in case you come up against someone who is gonna run the ball every play regardless of what you do.

Another effective option for slot corners is PA+Acrobat, or PA+MZKO, if you run match you can go PA+DZKO since DZKO works on any route beyond 15+ yards that doesn't land in between the hash marks.

Offensively my receivers are either Short in+Short Out or Short Out+RT, The new Jonathan Mingo has SOE+SIE+HL for single receiver sets when I plan on running the ball anyways. Mack Hollins with nasty streak in the slot is also great for running (People keep telling me it doesn't light up but my mack hollins is the terminator).

As far as RBs, to be competitive it's Flash, or king henry (but you have to use his TTR cards, Burks, Simmons, Hooker+Power Run) and it turns him into a beast, or Gus bus, but also with the TTR boosts. Right now I'm using Bijan RP with Tank, Bruiser, Short in for 1 ap, and Gibbs RP with Short in+Evasive for 0 at 3rdb and It's just kind of a fun combo imo.

as far as players to use. RP cards first then GTs, then Gamechanger Kevin Byard.

Right now I'm using Peppers, RP Ja'yir Brown, and Kyle Hamilton at Slot corner but that's subject to change. If we get a MLB that gets Lurker and TS from RP I'd love to throw him in there.