If a player has negative development when they're young (like below) do they ever turn it around and start developing well again?

Team: Free Agent
Trade Score: 37
Height: 6' 3"
Weight: 241 (2% below average)
Age: 23
Experience: 2
Your Rating: 33/70
Default Rating: 28/61
From Start: +4/-6
This Season: +0/-1

Volatility is a measure of variance (boom/bust potential). Players have a hidden variable that determines their tendency toward a final set of attributes (aka future ratings). This distinction of tendency vs target is important -- target is the current set of expected future attributes, and tendency is the slope of the linear function that is processed every update to change players' current and future ratings based on the direction (positive/negative) and magnitude of the tendency value.

From what I've been able to glean, when a player is generated, his current and future attributes are all set, along with volatility. Once those are in place, the hidden tendency value is set within a certain acceptable range of values -- the higher the volatility, the wider positive and negative these values are. We are never able to see what tendency is, but we can estimate the range it's in based on volatility, and player progress over time is directly tied to this value. Progress has different multipliers based on which update is processing (e.g., training camp is the equivalent of about 3-7 games of progress, progress slows over time, etc.).

Note that these changes are unrelated to aging players, which follows a completely different process.

There are a few important lessons we can take from this:
1. Tendency does not change. Once a player is busting/booming at a particular degree, the change will tend toward zero over time, but it will not increase in magnitude or change in direction (busting players will never boom and vice versa).
2. A player with high volatility won't necessarily boom/bust -- they're just more likely to trend further up/down.
3. A player with maxed future skills and high volatility has equal chances between reaching max future skills and busting.

A 96 volatility LBer at 259 pounds converted to dB because he had 85 speed and 88/99 bump with 43/56 man most likely will go up in overalls due to the losss in weight even though he is a high volatility bust. Possibly finishing at 96 spd 91 bump and 49 man puts him as a safe high
Volatility player to draft

Are you high? Surely you dont mean earlier than the late 6th thru 7th round.
I know speed kills, yadda, but 49M2M for a LB - much less a CB? Are you DAFT?
Desperation pick, and I guarantee I can find a better one - especially when one takes into account the position change penalties pre Training Camp.
Holy smokes. What terrible advice.