Found a bunch of stuff... about the hof players.
-Start up madden
-Then the first thing you do is save the default rosters. Do NOT go into the madden level up gamer thing. Don't even select it. Once you do, they are automatically put in the free agent list. (You can still use the "level up" option, but just don't ever overwrite your saved default rosters. because then you will be saving the Hall of Fame free agents on your roster. So basically you'll be keeping two saved roster files on your hard drive.
Also, there are no updated rosters online. I think the reason why some people are getting prompted to download them online is because they edited the default rosters, then went onto xbox live to play. Xbox live makes you download them again to play online. So actually your downloading the same default rosters.
The best thing to do is actually save 3 rosters, one named default, one named hof, and one named online.
Oh, and alot of people are waiting until next week to start their franchises, as the roster update is supposed to come out on saturday.