2025 NFL trade deadline: Candidates to move, teams to watch - ESPN

We're only two weeks into the 2025 NFL season and still more than six weeks away from the Nov. 4 trade deadline (4 p.m. ET). But NFL seasons go by very quickly, and each week offers an array of new data points on which teams base their short- and long-term decisions.

The Buccaneers, for example, are 2-0 and four-time defending division champions that have their sights set on the Super Bowl. They also lost two starting offensive linemen to injury on Monday night and are still awaiting the return of another in left tackle Tristan Wirfs. This is a team capable of patching things together, but they might need some help from the outside if they're going to get where they need to go in December and January.

Across Alligator Alley on the east coast of Florida, the Dolphins have had a rough start to the season. They are 0-3 and could conceivably be in rebuild mode if this season doesn't turn around. Even with that deadline more than six weeks away, we can be sure teams are looking at Miami's roster and wondering who might be available.

So with that all in mind, we decided to take a little bit of an early look at what could happen as the season gets closer to the deadline. Who could be on the move? Which teams could be adding new players? Which teams could be moving on from players? And what could happen between now and then to shake up the entire landscape?

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Five potential trade targets
Five teams that could add
Five teams that cold subtract
Five wild-card factors

Here's the one everyone has been talking about since the offseason. Hill was openly dissatisfied when the 2024 season ended, and while the team did not move on from him, he and quarterback Tua Tagovailoa talked in training camp about the fact that the