March 2020
my quarterback has 99 field general 99 strong arm 99 improviser but it won’t let me upgrade my scrambler ability and it’s only a 96 it says I don’t have enough skill points but I have 10 skill points
April 2020
I was having the same problem in my cloud franchise. I’m playing as a Coach, I had a WR with this issue. I changed him to HB then back to WR and I was able to use his skill points immediately
May 2020
47 skill points available and as a QB, scrambler is the only one showing an over 96 everything else is showing 99 and locked. I canceled my EA subscription because of this and am just playing till my paid time is expired. I love playing madden, but this problem has caused me to stop my subscription and will never buy a game with EA attached to it again. Sure, take a game I love, tell me it only requires one skill point to advance, have over 40 skill points then tell me not enough skill points. LOL. Oh yeah, I'm sharing this with everybody. Thought the last Madden update, though only 146 MB would fix the issue but it didn't. EA doesn't care about anything but making money, but apparantly doesn't realise how much money this error is going to cost them. "Whether compared to traditional advertising, media mentions, or promotional events, word of mouth is more useful in creating new users and customers. Indeed, McKinsey suggests that “word of mouth" generates more than twice the sales of paid advertising". I'm showing my word of mouth here and everywhere else this problem occurs to show people EA doesn't care and says next season will fix your problems. They need to fix the code. season's don't matter. Remember, they will put the carrot on a stick in front of you to keep you going.
October 2020
What if you are playing as the face of the franchise
October 2022
not extremely rare at all actually, happens quite often when u reach 99 in any archetype that it will lock one of the other archetypes where they are currently at, i have seen it happen multiple times over the course of a franchise, in my current franchise i can't get justin jefferson above 97 playmaker because i wanted to finish deep threat first