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Here is what I sent in reply to a PM to another owner asking a similar question:
Rain Man and I really don't want to tell too much what is going on behind the curtain because people will start gaming the system.
The player's natural position is going to be considered what he played in a given year, even if the player had demonstrated that he could play other positions in past years. Part of the reason for that is that performance is context specific. Certain positions generate more favorable stats than other similar positions just due to responsibilities and match ups. You can also imagine the chaos if we started considering these kinds of position changes on a case-by-case situation. If we denied a request for good reason, someone would get ticked off if we had approved another seemingly similar case. So we consider the natural position to be the one the player played the most in during a given NFL season, and we consider his performance in the context of that position. If you move someone around, there will be an effect -- sometimes large and sometimes small--, and you're just going to have to trust that we've made those adjustments in a realistic and reasonable way. So our advice as always is to just play the game the way you think it should be played without worrying about how we've designed the game. When unrealistic aspects of the simulation are brought to our attention, we make modifications to make it more realistic.
Hope this sheds some light.
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