Sorry for the late response, I've never had anyone attempt a franchise mode run so I unfortunately never put any rules down. I'll adopt the rules from Madden 19 and put them in the rules for the category.

I think that there should be a new category that is exhibition but with 2 players. Because playing with 2 players eliminates the threats of timeouts, which completely ruins the meta of the original category, I think that it should require a different category.