Playmakering is back this year, and it's easier than you'd expect.
Here's what you do:
Hold down L2/LT and then move the right analog stick to the direction you'd like the closest person to the QB to go.

Yea that's too bad cuz there are too many bums who use playmaker to create their entire offence..

the playmaker is way less effective then it was last year because if the person you playmaker has bad rouyte running he trips and stutters and the qbs are way slower so you cant really get it on the run