Ten traded players who will have biggest impact on 2024 NFL season.
Over the past three offseasons, the NFL trade market has included movement by at least one marquee quarterback. That wasn’t true this year — but the list of traded players with the best chance to impact the upcoming season is still heavily influenced by the position.
The top three players in my list below are there not just because they are good players, but because they can help their quarterbacks play better, thus having a big effect on the fate of their franchises and, basically, the league. Only one person who actually throws the ball for a living made the cut, but as is true of everything in the NFL, QB loomed large in my mind when I was going through this exercise.
This is a good place to explain briefly that I wasn’t just trying to predict which traded player would perform best on an individual level during the 2024 NFL season, but rather who has the chance to really change how things play out going forward. I also factored in some projection here, thinking about what could happen, in addition to what seems most likely — because that just feels like the right thing to do in May.
