Benched Iconic+ players unavailable to trade for development points

Anyone else have the issue of being “stuck” with Mythic, Iconic or Epic players that, once you remove them from the roster they just kind of hang around like Deshaun Watson?

I’ve got one Mythic player and SEVEN Iconic players that are on the bench and are, essentially untradeable. I can’t trade them in for development points (or anything else for that matter). I can’t put two of them together and trade for a different player I might be able to use. They just sit there and keep me from improving the team as much as I could. While they’re clearly NOT on the starting lineup, they don’t show up as eligible for any of the trades where they should. 

EA Customer support said to take it here where the developers might see it since every recommendation they’ve had has failed. Even logging out, deleting the app (and its data and re-installing hasn’t helped - multiple times). I’m up for any suggestions. Been playing this game since the first mobile version and this is the worst bug I’ve seen. I’ve got tens of thousands of development points just lounging around on my bench like a whole series of bad trades.

FWIW, I ALSO see that while my team total is 4,876 at the top of the screen, when I try to play the final Journey level for the 10,000 Madden Bucks, my team total magically drops to 4,854 - keeping me from playing the level to earn the bucks to get more Iconic players to sit on my bench and not contribute.

Thanks for any help you can offer.