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Henry McKenna
NFL Reporter
This is the moment when NFL teams have to get real about who and what they don’t have.
Every team cut its roster down to 53 players on Tuesday. With Week 1 approaching, teams have started building their game plans with their personnel. And that means cutting away the concepts and ideas that their personnel can’t execute.
But what if they didn’t have to?
Wouldn’t it be fun if — in their moment of epiphany — these teams went out and got exactly what they needed?
I decided to look through the stars who are either discontented or misfitted in their current locale. And I searched for a landing spot (and compensation package) that would make everyone happy. Now, I recognize that some of these concepts might be farfetched. But that’s the fun of this exploration: to explore what these players would be worth on the open market and which teams might be willing to pay that exorbitant price.
These are the seven blockbuster trades that we’d love to see ahead of the 2024 season.
The Brandon Aiyuk Blockbuster
Pittsburgh Steelers get: Aiyuk
San Francisco 49ers get: Steelers’ 2025 first-rounder, 2026 third-rounder
There have been enough chapters in the book of Aiyuk — at least when it comes to this potential trade. Let’s just get it done. The Steelers were always going to have to give up a first-rounder, but they’re also throwing in a third for good measure.
Now, this won’t solve the real problem for Pittsburgh. Their offensive line is likely to be an abomination. But the Steelers aren’t going to find an elite right tackle on the trade market. So they’ll instead pair Aiyuk with George Pickens to help out their quarterbacks. We all know that both Russell Wilson and Justin Fields are going to play this year. The starter — whoever gets the first crack at it — will struggle. Then the other QB will, too. And it’ll cycle like that for most of the season.
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Publish date : 2024-08-28 13:40:06
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