Judging biggest overreactions for NFL Week 8 - ESPN

The NFL trade deadline is 4 p.m. ET on Tuesday, which is all kinds of wrong. It should be later in the season so teams have more time to figure out whether they're actually in the playoff race, and whether they should be adding impact players or dealing them away.

But Oct. 31 is what we've got, so there are some teams that have to figure all that out really quickly over the next 24-48 hours. What you don't want your team to do is overreact, and that's what we're here to sort out. Calling around the league last week, I was a little shocked by how many times I heard a team was waiting to see what happened Sunday before deciding what to do. I mean, really? You're going to let this come down to the result of one game? That's just about the ultimate overreaction.

So since we know that teams around the league were sitting around last week prepared to overreact to Week 8 results, we feel like a trade-deadline-themed overreactions column — where we judge a few potential takeaways from the weekend's games — is appropriate. We start in Tennessee, where a rookie authored one of the stunning stories of the day.

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With Tannehill injured (right ankle) and out for this game, Titans coach Mike Vrabel said both of his backup quarterbacks would play. That meant Will Levis, who was the 33rd overall pick in this year's draft, and Malik Willis, who was the Titans' third-round pick in 2022. Well, Willis had two carries for 4 yards and Levis was the only Titans QB to throw a pass in this game — and that appeared to be the correct decision because Levis was awesome.

Unafraid to push the ball down the field to DeAndre Hopkins, Levis uncorked four touchdown passes