Generating best lineup putting in lower overall players at TE

JeffB said:

My top three TE are Antonio Gates, (99) Martellus Bennett (99) and  Team Captain Jason Witten (97 but 99 with team chems)

Whenever I generate the best lineup it puts Gates at 1, Bennett at 2 and instead of Witten it puts in outdated 94 ovr Kittle 

This happen to anyone else with TE (or other positions)?

All the time. Lol. I can't forget out which stats the CPU is using to place players either. Sometimes the fastest guy is the backup so it's not always a speed thing. Typically I thought generate best team by OVR would do just that but it will sometimes do wonky stuff like that. I save 3/4 lineups at a time. I usually keep one madrec (Madden recommendation) and one that I build and then maybe one with specific chemistry or whatever but I still like playing with the madrec even when they put players at starter that should be backup. Just to see how they do. My experience so far is that the top right corner OVR on any card only means so much in terms of how a card will perform. I've still got 96's on my team from Combine that, with boosts, play better then some 99's with boosts so I use them. ✌️