NFL owners approve changing trading deadline

The NFL will have a later trade deadline for the 2024 season. At the annual league meeting in Orlando this week, NFL owners approved a proposal submitted by the Pittsburgh Steelers to move the trade deadline to the midpoint of the season.

In 2024, the deadline will be the Tuesday after Week 9 is over.

With the league playing a 17-game, 18-week season, it made sense to move the deadline to the midpoint.

Multiple teams combined to propose that the deadline be moved to after Week 10. That was not approved.

Previously, the deadline came the Tuesday after Week 8.

It was the first change of the deadline since 2012 when it was moved from after Week 6 to after Week 8.

Had the deadline been after Week 9, perhaps the Cardinals could have avoided the debacle of their 27-0 Week 9 loss when Clayton Tune made his first NFL start.

They traded Josh Dobbs to the Minnesota Vikings before the deadline and before Kyler Murray was ready to return from his knee injury.

Of course, the situation was such that perhaps Tune would have replaced Dobbs in the starting lineup anyway in Week 9 and perhaps the trade to the Vikings would have happened anyway that week because it was when Kirk Cousins tore his Achilles and was lost for the rest of the season.

The later trade deadline will give writers, reporters, analysts, podcasters and all other NFL content creators an extra week of speculation of deals that could happen.

It should be fun.

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