NFL Trade Deadline Primer: Buyers, Sellers, and Deals That Make Sense!

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🗓️ 28 October 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Sheil scans the NFL trade market and uses his expertise to determine which struggling teams should cut bait with some of their assets at the upcoming deadline and reboot for next season. He then shines a light on the playoff-bound teams in need of a specific roster boost and offers possible landing spots for available stars around the league. (00:00) NFL trade deadline primer(2:12) NFL trade deadline buyers(12:07) NFL trade deadline sellers(25:33) The Hurry Up: The Vikings' QB carousel Great ideas start on Mac https://www.apple.com/mac/ The Ringer is committed to responsible gaming. Please visit ⁠www.rg-help.com⁠ to learn more about the resources and helplines available. Host: Sheil KapadiaProducer: Chris SuttonSocial: Kiera Givens and Brian WatersProduction Supervision: Conor Nevins and Arjuna Ramgopowell Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Ringer NFL show. I'm your host, Shield Capadia. The trade deadline is one week away
0:06.1	next Tuesday, November 4th at 4 p.m. Eastern. So we are doing a little trade deadline primer today.
0:15.0	Who are the sellers? The teams that would be best served to make deals, acquire draft capital,
0:20.4	we'll go over who those
0:21.3	teams are. Who are the buyers? It feels like there's a lot of them. A lot of teams that could go
0:27.5	into this saying, hey, if we had one piece, if we had two pieces, we have a real chance to make
0:33.1	a run in the playoffs, maybe get to the Super Bowl. So I'm going to look at those teams, see what their specific needs are.
0:39.7	And finally, what deals make sense?
0:42.5	I gave you some fake trades last week with Deonti.
0:45.8	I dug in even more this time to try to find more deals that make sense for the buyers,
0:51.2	make sense for the sellers, try to look at past trades that have happened in the NFL,
0:55.9	what the compensation was like. So I will throw all of those your way. All right, let's take a
1:01.0	break. We come back and we get to the trade deadline primer. This is the Ringer NFL show
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2:13.6	All right, we're back.
2:18.7	Let's start with the sellers because teams are often very conservative this time of year.
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