From my experience, the player attributes are not necessarily directly correlated to the star ratings. The star ratings have more to do with the player’s CA and PA.
if you rank the team by CA, mbappe and haaland will always come up top, but they do not necessarily have the best attributes.
This also applies to regens. Regens of the likes of messi, CR7 will eventually come up top. Because they have the highest PA.
In your case. I’d say godfrey could be Trent regen, while putz could be someone like maguire regen.