NFL trade deadline winners, latest Week 9 buzz, fantasy tips - ESPN

Week 9 of the 2023 NFL season is here, and league insiders Jeremy Fowler and Dan Graziano are breaking down the biggest questions, latest news and notable buzz of the week. Plus, they picked out which teams are on upset watch and which players should — or shouldn't — be in your fantasy football lineups.

But first, let's make sense of the trade deadline, which passed at 4 p.m. ET on Tuesday. We saw 15 total deals (six on Tuesday), including Montez Sweat going to Chicago, Joshua Dobbs helping fill the sudden QB void in Minnesota and Chase Young heading to San Francisco. Which teams — and players — were the big winners of the deadline? And which teams came away from the deadline with more questions than answers? It's all here, as Dan and Jeremy break down the biggest trades and empty their notebooks with everything they've heard heading into Week 9.

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Graziano: I'll start with the Eagles. Just because their move for Titans safety Kevin Byard was last week instead of this week doesn't mean it wasn't a high-impact deadline deal. Byard will be a huge help to the back end of that defense, which has struggled this season. Add in the fact that the Cowboys didn't make any trades ahead of the teams' first head-to-head matchup of the year, and the Eagles came out ahead. I'm not saying the Cowboys needed to make a move, but I'm not sure the Eagles needed to make one either.

Just the fact that the Eagles added an accomplished veteran to their defense while their closest rivals didn't do anything feels like a reason to call them a winner. I was going to say the 49ers were the deadline's biggest winner, but their move (Chase Young) is offset by the