NFL Week 8 latest trade buzz, fantasy tips, upset predictions - ESPN

Week 8 of the 2023 NFL season is here, and league insiders Jeremy Fowler and Dan Graziano are breaking down the biggest questions, latest news and most notable buzz of the week. Plus, they pick out which teams are on upset watch and which players should — or shouldn't — be in your fantasy football lineups.

But the focus this week is the looming NFL trade deadline 4 p.m. ET on Tuesday — less than a week away. Who will get traded, and which teams might be the most active? Could a contender add a talented pass-rusher? Will an under-the-radar team emerge and make some deals? It's all here, as Dan and Jeremy answer the big questions and empty their notebooks with everything they've heard heading into Week 8.

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Hunter vs. Young | Big names on the move
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Graziano: Young. I was going to say Hunter, but then the Vikings upset the 49ers on Monday night to improve to 3-4, and my sense of things is that this means they're not going to be sellers. They're two games out of first place in a division they won last year, and I don't think they're up for trading their best pass-rusher.

Young is a hot name right now, and teams have absolutely been calling the Commanders to see what they want to do with him. In Young and Montez Sweat, Washington has two edge rushers slated to be unrestricted free agents at the end of the year, and the presumption around the league is that the team can't or won't be able to keep and pay them both. (You can only franchise one player per year.) But under new ownership and with uncertainty surrounding head coach and chief organizational decision-maker Ron Rivera, the Commanders might not be in position to have