NFL Trade Deadline: Where do the Jets Trades Rank Among Priciest In-Season Deals?

The New York Jets threw a wrench into NFL trade deadline day, making two of the biggest in-season deals in recent memory.

Star cornerback Sauce Gardner was moved to the Indianapolis Colts, who are looking to sure up their defense ahead of a possible playoff run, while standout defensive tackle Quinnen Williams was traded to the Dallas Cowboys, who are hoping to get some sort of defensive spark. Both trades netted the Jets multiple valuable draft picks as a result. 

But were they the most expensive trades made during the season in NFL history? Here are the five priciest in-season trades, in terms of assets moved, in NFL history. 

Herschel Walker was traded to the Vikings in 1989, but wasn't able to bring them to the promised land, while the Cowboys used the haul they got for him to start a dynasty run. (Photo by Focus on Sport/Getty Images)

Cowboys received LB Jesse Solomon, LB David Howard, CB Issiac Holt, DE Alex Stewart (all released in order to acquire five conditional draft picks), three draft picks (first-round pick, second-round pick, sixth-round pick).

It was the trade that helped start the Cowboys' dynasty of the 1990s, even if they were far from a Super Bowl contender at the time. In Jerry Jones and Jimmy Johnson's first year in Dallas, the two made the bold move to trade Walker amid the Cowboys' poor start to a Minnesota Vikings team that was hoping he would be the final piece for a Super Bowl run. The Cowboys initially got four players in the deal, but they released all of them so they could receive five extra draft picks (two first-round picks, two second-round picks, one third-round pick) on top of the three draft picks they initially got in the deal. 

The Vikings reached the playoffs the year they traded