NFL Trade Deadline: Broncos Acquire Vernon Davis
Taking a trip down memory lane of recent NFL trade deadlines is somewhat of an exercise of amnesia.
The more you call around the league, the more you hear, "Nothing really comes to mind," in answers to questions about trade-deadline deals that fell through. It"s understandable. So few deals are really in the works that the conversations become forgettable past the deadlines.
"There"s a lot of teams that don"t make in-season trades," New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick told reporters last week. "They seem kind of reluctant to trade -- this time of year, especially."
Since the new collective bargaining agreement of 2011, the value of draft picks has escalated and more teams are realizing that building through free agency doesn"t work. Most trades for players are for sixth- or seventh-round picks.
Belichick and the Patriots are the exception. They have become the king of the trade deadline over the past few years, proving it again Monday when they shipped linebacker Jamie Collins -- one of the team"s most talented players -- to the Cleveland Browns.
To coincide with Tuesday"s trade deadline (4 p.m. ET), here are some recent deadline deals that didn"t get done, with help from a few NFL executives across the league who helped jog my memory.
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Source: http://www.espn.com/nfl/insider/story/_/id/17940674/nfl-trade-deadline-deals-almost-happened-2016
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