DeAndre Hopkins, Jalen Ramsey, and the other top trade candidates of the 2023 NFL offseason; Plus, the bizarre disavowals of interest in Lamar Jackson
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🗓️ 9 March 2023
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Summary
Two of the biggest acquisitions last March—Davante Adams and Tyreek Hill—weren't free agent signings, but trades. Which veterans could get moved during this offseason's free agent frenzy? Robert Mays and Nate Tice discuss nearly 20 such guys on this episode of The Athletic Football Show.
First, though, they consider some of the fallout from the Lamar Jackson and Daniel Jones moves now that we have more information.
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2:31 Really? No one wants Lamar Jackson? Really?
16:22 More details on the Daniel Jones contract
31:57 Veteran trade candidates, starting with DeAndre Hopkins
37:51 Jalen Ramsey
44:15 Mike Evans and Chris Godwin
48:07 Brandin Cooks
51:28 Laremy Tunsil
53:50 Tyron Smith
56:07 Derrick Henry
58:41 Chargers veterans on defense
62:11 Za'Darius Smith
65:02 Interior defensive linemen
74:38 Nate's guys!
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| 0:47.7 | Welcome to the athletic football show. |
| 0:50.0 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:50.9 | Joining me today. |
| 0:52.4 | It's my good friend Nate Tyson. |
| 0:53.4 | How you doing, buddy? |
| 0:54.5 | Doing very well. We soldier today. It's my good friend Nate Tyson. How are you doing, buddy? Doing very well. |
| 0:55.7 | We soldier on. This is, I know we have all these kind of shows in the hopper or guys were planning it. And I had to check in. I was like, what are we doing today? We're doing trades. Okay, here we go. Let's whip up the cap sites. Let's start looking at some rosters, see who's overloaded, some positions. |
| 0:53.4 | This was fantastic because it's a great thought exercise to kind of really start piecing together. Like, oh, this guy can be in a move. Look at the rumor mill a little bit. I'm very excited to get into this because this is a, I love our theory shows, you know, like where you throw out some stuff, you know, throw out some ideas, see what sticks. |
| 1:27.9 | And I'm excited to get going on this. |
| 1:30.5 | I love fake trades. |
| 1:32.0 | I've always loved fake trades. |
| 1:33.7 | It's one of my favorite parts of doing this. |
| 1:35.6 | It's like, first job. |
| 1:37.7 | Who could be available here? |
| 1:40.2 | You know, what sort of guys? |
| 1:41.9 | And you take a look at who's got huge cap hits. |
| 1:44.8 | Who's hitting free agency next year that might be a candidate because the team doesn't want to resign them. |
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