Hey @dekutree64,
This is very interesting!
In the first iteration of the DriveShield I’ve started form lepton and used DRV8300 with the SE3082G (its the version v0.1). And I was not able to get them to work at all. My DRV8300 were burning right away. So I figured it’s my ignorance that is causing this and I switched to the more integrated driver DRV8320. This time the current limiting stepped in and the driver was not burned, but I was never able to get any real output from the mosfets.
Once again my ignorance is probably the issue 
But just in case its not I started doubting the mosfets SE2082G. I unsoldered them and tried to trigger them by hand on a breadboard and I was not able to trigger them properly, they kept burning right away. Once when I switched to the discrete mosfets I had no more issues. (more or less the same circuit on the driver side).
So provided that its not the issue of my lack of experience (a big if :D), do you think that it might be a SE2082G batch issue?