The NFL’s trade deadline often comes and goes with a whimper, but this year has a chance to be different.
Even with the Arizona Cardinals sitting at 7-0, there might be no clearly dominant team in the NFL this season, lending to the belief that the chase for the Super Bowl is a wide-open affair. That could gear up general managers to be more aggressive, seeking those difference-making players.
There are currently 10 teams with records of 2-5 and worse. Since the start of the 2001 season, there have been 98 teams to start out at exactly 2-5 — and a mere six of those went to the playoffs.