I have the same issue. It's for sure not a corrupted file. I tried multiple times, new franchise, etc and always the same. It crashes the first time my team comes up to bat. I have PS5. I uninstalled the game and did not reinstall the update. After that the game worked with the same save files. Then I redownload the update patch and it is broke again. So I can turn on and off the franchise crash issue by having or not having the patch. Even Madden bugs aren't this bad.
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