The younger front offices and sidelines get (and the more Thanos-like Eagles GM Howie Roseman gets), the more exciting trade deadline week becomes. Teams in the middle of the pack are trying to break out. Teams way out in front are trying to stomp on the competition and keep good players from coming back to bite them in the postseason. And just about every GM and coach realizes that if they sit on their hands or insist they can’t incorporate a player into their system in the middle of the season, an owner is going to find someone who can.
Trades are good for business across the board.
The 2022 deadline has already been a bustling one, with several superstars on the move and perhaps a few more to go. We’ve gotten enough in the hopper to start the all-important process of grading those moves. While this is difficult—in many cases the players haven’t gotten much of an opportunity—we can still get a sense of each team’s situation, the compensation they doled out and how they’ll be able to best utilize the player’s skill set.
This post will be updated throughout the weekend and into Tuesday’s 4 p.m. ET deadline.
DEADLINE DAY
Bradley Chubb and a 2024 fourth-round pick to the Dolphins for Chase Edmonds and a 2023 first-round pick (previously acquired via the 49ers)
Grade for the Dolphins: C+
Grade for the Broncos: A
Chubb is averaging 2.0 pressures per game in 2022, a career-low for any season during which he played at least eight games. The former No. 5 overall pick is a strong and talented rusher who has clearly benefited from time spent with Von Miller, whose move suite is among the most valuable dossiers in all of football. It will be worth watching Chubb on a defense with more than one Alpha and some thicker pocket pushers. The Dolphins simply have more avenues to get at the quarterback than Denver does right now. We like the deal for the Broncos, though, because they were not going to maximize Chubb in their defense, nor were they likely to pay him an exorbitant amount of money this offseason, especially with another solid edge class coming up in 2023 and a decent veteran edge class in the free-agent market. The Dolphins may have reached a little for a player who has one complete season in the books.
