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MAQB: How the Panthers and Jets Negotiated the Sam Darnold Trade

Three weeks until the draft, but we’re hitting more than just that this week. …

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• The Panthers/Jets trade may have seemed to have come out of nowhere—but the truth is the teams had been chipping away at it for quite some time. Carolina first broached the topic of a deal for Sam Darnold with the Jets in mid-February, a couple weeks after a very strong bid for Matthew Stafford fell through.