The 2017 NFL season saw a new trend emerging and becoming a reality: trades of big-name players near the league’s trade deadline. This year, the trade of Khalil Mack from Oakland to Chicago was a huge move, but that happened prior to week one. Instead, the first big mid-season trade before the October 30 deadline was reported on Monday, as ESPN’s Josina Anderson broke news that the Dallas Cowboys have acquired wide receiver Amari Cooper — another starter that the Oakland Raiders have now traded away.
However, the compensation for Mack seemed to favor the Bears, as Chicago traded first- and sixth-round picks in 2019 and first- & third-round picks in 2020 in exchange for Mack, a second-rounder in 2020, and a conditional fifth-rounder that same year.