Pancake is a waste, get some AEQ with Get Low instead.
I was surprised by how many pancakes linemen get if you don't worry about the SA at all. I have 2 Gs I cap-built that are only 18 days younger than your player and the same level. Neither of them have put a point of Pancake (other than the Custom EQ tree bonus) but one of them has 885 pancakes on his career and the other has 929.
http://goallineblitz.com/game/player.pl?player_id=1252059 LG with 929
http://goallineblitz.com/game/player.pl?player_id=1252054 RG with 885
Ever since the team started, we've only had 1 other G on our roster. He has 5 ranks of Pancake as of now and only 377 pancakes despite rotating at both RG and LG and getting just as many plays.
http://goallineblitz.com/game/player.pl?player_id=1262786I think that goes a long toward proving you don't really need the Pancake SA to get pancakes the first 43 levels of your player's career, not that pancakes mean much other than you are really good at dominating lower level and CPU D-linemen. So if pancakes as a stat are highly over-rated and you don't really need the SA to get a ton of them, what purpose does it have again?