In the NFL, “good enough” sometimes doesn’t suffice. The 2023 season is a perfect example thus far.
We’re almost halfway through this campaign, and it’s abundantly clear the Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles — last season’s Super Bowl 57 participants — are a cut above the rest of the competition. But it doesn’t have to stay that way. With the 2023 NFL trade deadline on the horizon this Halloween, prospective teams trying to hunt the Chiefs and Eagles down can make trades that transform them into powerhouses worthy of toppling the NFL’s upper-crust giants.
Now is the time for the league’s upper-tier, second-class contending teams to make moves that can elevate them over the top this winter. They assuredly won’t get a better chance all season, so there’s no room for sitting idly by on the sideline. The below list features a few squads who shouldn’t hesitate to buy, buy, buy by the time the 4 p.m. ET hits this Tuesday.
The bigger the swing of a trade addition, the better.