Yeah, that happened too. Luckily it was a preseason game and I won anyway. There were probably 3-4 plays like that where a receiver/RB ran towards the sidelines instead of north/south. It sort of reminds me of how the QB's will often just scramble to the sidelines when being pressured instead of turning up field or throwing it away.
Maybe that has also been a thing in the game but it never really jumped out to me until this season under the new update.