With the NFL’s trade deadline fast approaching, savvy teams are thinking about the best way to bolster their roster for a late season playoff run, or how to offload components that other teams might desire now, in an effort to build for the future. Teams have until November 1st, at 4pm to execute trades, and some are already getting started:
Trade comp: 49ers are sending second-, third- and fourth-round picks in 2023 and a fifth-round pick in 2024 in exchange for RB Christian McCaffrey, sources tell ESPN.
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) October 21, 2022
At 2-4, with the Carson Wentz experiment a pretty clear failure and the 2022 season now consigned to figuring out how to best position the team for its QB of the future in the 2023 draft, now is the time to take a hard look at the roster and figure out which players might be the most desirable targets for other teams in the league.