NFL Trade Deadline: Commanders deal from pick stockpile, score CB Marshon Lattimore

Oct 17, 2024; New Orleans, Louisiana, USA; New Orleans Saints cornerback Marshon Lattimore (23) throughout the warmups earlier than the sport towards the Denver Broncos at Caesars Superdome. Obligatory Credit score: Stephen Lew-Imagn Pictures

Signaling the franchise views itself as a contender once more, the Washington Commanders gave up three draft picks to accumulate Professional Bowl cornerback Marshon Lattimore from the sinking New Orleans Saints on Tuesday.

The Commanders (7-2) reportedly mentioned a number of strikes for assist in the secondary to higher match up with No. 1-type broad receivers and opted to guess on Lattimore regardless of the asking value of 2025 third-, fourth- and sixth-round picks. Washington additionally receives a fifth-round pick within the 2025 draft. Lattimore, 28, has missed 19 video games over the previous two seasons as a result of accidents.

The commerce was the lone transfer on the deadline involving a assured third-round draft pick and helps the Saints shift into a brand new part of rebuilding days after firing head coach Dennis Allen. New Orleans has misplaced seven consecutive video games after a 2-0 begin.

Washington started Tuesday with 9 draft picks in 2025 and the Commanders had two third-round picks; its personal choice and the Eagles’ third-rounder from the Jahan Dotson commerce earlier this yr.

The sixth-round pick goes again to the Saints from Commanders GM Adam Peters. Washington acquired the pick in a commerce for defensive sort out John Ridgeway III.

Including Lattimore to pair with Benjamin St-Juste probably bumps 2023 first-round pick Emmanuel Forbes out of the beginning lineup.

Lattimore began seven video games this season and did not play final week at Carolina. He was restricted by a strained hamstring in current weeks and the deal with the Commanders is topic to a routine bodily.

He has began 97 regular-season video games with 405 tackles (326 solo), 15 interceptions, 5 pressured fumbles, 5 fumble recoveries and 88 go breakups.

-Lions shore up line of defense, purchase Za’Darius Smith from Browns

Smith is again within the NFC North, acquired by conference-leading Detroit from Cleveland for a fifth-round choice within the 2025 NFL Draft and a sixth-round pick in 2026.

Pushing for a go rusher since dropping Aidan Hutchinson to a damaged leg, the Lions landed Smith and in addition obtain a seventh-round pick in 2026.

A 3-time Professional Bowl choice, Smith has 5 sacks this season enjoying reverse Myles Garrett in Cleveland.

The sting rusher has 65 profession sacks, 321 tackles and 10 pressured fumbles in 132 profession video games (89 begins) with the Baltimore Ravens, Inexperienced Bay Packers, Minnesota Vikings and Browns.

–Bengals bolster RB room, commerce for Bears’ Khalil Herbert

Displaced by the arrival of free agent D’Andre Swift initially of the 2024 season, Herbert may step into an instantaneous position within the Bengals’ backfield after Cincinnati traded a seventh-round pick to accumulate the 26-year-old.

Herbert offers depth within the Bengals’ offense after operating again Zack Moss landed on injured reserve Tuesday with a neck damage.

Herbert had eight carries for 16 yards and a landing with the Bears this season. He has rushed for 1,791 yards and 9 touchdowns to go together with 45 catches for 291 yards and two scores in 48 profession video games (12 begins) with the Bears.

–49ers purchase DT Khalil Davis from Texans

For the fourth time in 5 years, 49ers common supervisor John Lynch acquired a defensive lineman on the commerce deadline.

Lynch traded a seventh-round pick in 2026 to the Texans for Davis, a reserve defensive sort out for former 49ers defensive coordinator DeMeco Ryans in San Francisco.

Davis has performed in 9 video games in 2024 and appeared in 15 video games with the Texans final season, totaling 41 tackles and three sacks.

–Ravens pick up CB Tre’Davious White from Rams

White, a two-time Professional Bowl cornerback, was traded from Los Angeles to Baltimore together with a 2027 seventh-round pick. The Rams obtain a seventh-rounder in 2026 within the deal, which offers White with a contemporary begin after being a gameday inactive for 4 consecutive video games.

Even when the deal is finalized rapidly, the Ravens are unlikely to make use of White this week. They play the Cincinnati Bengals in Baltimore on Thursday night time. The Ravens enable 280.9 passing yards per recreation, final within the NFL getting into Week 10.

Signed to a one-year deal value as much as $10 million with incentives within the offseason, White was granted permission to hunt a commerce by the Rams final month.

The 2017 Defensive Rookie of the 12 months runner-up, White was named All-Professional in 2019, when he led the NFL with six interceptions.

Since tearing his ACL in 2021, White has been combating to remain wholesome. He suffered one other season-ending damage (Achilles) in 2023 and was launched by the Payments in a cap-savings transfer in March.

White has recorded 18 interceptions, 70 passes defensed and 323 tackles in 86 profession begins.

–Steelers get WR Mike Williams from Jets, edge Preston Smith from Packers

Pittsburgh was linked to a number of broad receivers within the commerce rumor mill since coaching camp. Within the Williams commerce, the Steelers despatched a 2025 fifth-round draft pick to New York in trade for Williams and later within the day parted with a seventh-rounder to Inexperienced Bay for Smith.

Williams, 30, has performed in all 9 video games (three begins) in his first season with the Jets however has solely 12 catches for 166 yards and nil touchdowns.

Head coach Mike Tomlin voiced frustration with the Steelers’ WR corps behind George Pickens. Rookie third-rounder Roman Wilson was positioned on injured reserve with a hamstring damage and had zero catches earlier than Pittsburgh made the transfer getting into its Week 9 bye.

In three video games for the reason that Jets added broad receiver Davante Adams in a commerce with the Las Vegas Raiders on Oct. 15, Williams has caught two of 4 targets for 21 yards.

Williams signed a one-year, $10 million deal with New York in March following seven seasons with the Los Angeles Chargers.

Williams caught 309 passes for 4,806 yards and 31 TDs in 88 video games (62 begins) with the Chargers.

The Steelers (6-2) have been on the lookout for receiving assist since buying and selling Diontae Johnson to the Carolina Panthers within the offseason and have been considered one of many frontrunners for 49ers broad receiver Brandon Aiyuk till he signed a brand new contract to remain in San Francisco.

Smith, who turns 32 later this month, has recorded 2.5 sacks, 4 quarterback hits and 19 tackles in 9 begins for the Packers in 2024. He is below contract for the following two seasons.

–Cowboys deal fourth-round pick for Panthers WR Jonathan Mingo

Carolina traded Mingo to Dallas for a fourth-round pick within the 2025 NFL Draft.

Including Mingo, 23, provides backup quarterback Cooper Rush one other huge, gifted goal as he steps in for injured starter Dak Prescott. As a part of the introduced commerce, the Cowboys additionally web a seventh-round pick in 2025.

Mingo began 14 video games as a rookie final season. The emergence of rookie first-round pick Xavier Legette and undrafted free agent Jalen Coker pushed Mingo down the depth chart in 2024.

Rebuilding Carolina traded Diontae Johnson and a 2025 sixth-rounder to the Ravens final week in trade for a fifth-round pick in 2025.

Drafted thirty ninth general by the Panthers within the 2023 NFL Draft, Mingo caught 43 passes as a rookie and has 12 receptions this season.

Through the 2023 draft, Mingo was a receiver the Cowboys “really liked,” in keeping with proprietor Jerry Jones. Dallas used its second-round pick, 19 spots after Mingo went off the board, to pick Michigan tight finish Luke Schoonmaker.

–Trades accomplished previous to Tuesday

Early motion from the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs to bolster their injury-dinged offense and go rush introduced in Tennessee Titans broad receiver DeAndre Hopkins in trade for a conditional fifth-round pick, and edge Josh Uche from the New England Patriots for a sixth-round pick 2026.

Hopkins caught two landing passes from Patrick Mahomes in Monday’s 30-24 victory over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, serving to the Chiefs enhance to 8-0.

–Vast receiver Amari Cooper was traded from the Browns together with a sixth-round pick to the Payments for third- and sixth-round picks. The third-rounder is within the 2025 draft and the sixth-rounder is in 2026.

–The New York Jets parted with a conditional third-round pick to accumulate Davante Adams from the Raiders on Oct. 15.

–Seattle acquired linebacker Ernest Jones from the Titans for a 2025 fourth-round pick and linebacker Jerome Baker on Oct. 23. The Seahawks traded a 2026 sixth-rounder to the Jaguars for defensive lineman Roy Robertson-Harris on Oct. 14.

–Days after dropping left sort out Christian Darrisaw to a season-ending knee damage, the Vikings acquired Jaguars sort out Cam Robinson and a conditional seventh-round pick for a conditional fifth-round pick. Robinson is within the closing yr of his current contract. Minnesota additionally traded for operating again Cam Akers, sending a conditional 2026 sixth-round pick to the Houston Texans. Houston additionally components with a conditional seventh-rounder in 2026.

–Outdoors linebacker Baron Browning was traded to the Arizona Cardinals by the Denver Broncos, who acquired a 2025 sixth-round pick.

–Subject Degree Media