Do the following to get a good rookie draft pick. Go to create a player and set 
his age at 45. Set his years as a pro at 27. He does not need a name, leave it 
as "New Player". Skip over "Build", "Appearance", and "Equipment". Go to 
attributes and set "Awareness" to 99. Then, go to "Throw Power" and "Throw 
Accuracy" and make them both 99. Exit and save your created player. Then, sign 
the player. Trade him to the team with the first round first pick. You should 
now have the first pick in the draft almost all the time. Additionally, use the 
following trick to get the first pick in every round in the draft. Turn off the 
trade deadlines. Then, trade all of your picks with the team with the worst 
record before the wild card week. You will get all of their picks, and if you 
have a good season, you can even trade one of your picks for two of theirs.