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Seth Walder, ESPN Analytics
We’ll find out who won the draft day trades in three or four years, they say. Nonsense!
NFL general managers don’t have the benefit of hindsight when it comes to making trades — why should we when evaluating those trades? We’re grading these draft day deals immediately, based on the information available — just like the teams are doing.
To evaluate these deals, we’ll be relying heavily on our Approximate Value-based draft pick value calculations, along with important factors such as positional value, salary cap implications, veteran impact and short- and long-term team outlook.
Trades during the draft can be enormously consequential and can set the direction for a franchise for years to come, so don’t sleep on the importance of faring well here.
We’ll update this page with deals as they come in throughout the draft.
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NFL draft trade tracker
Broncos get: DE John Franklin-Myers
Jets get: Denver’s sixth-round pick in 2026