Michael Owens/Getty Images
The 2024 NFL season is underway, and there have been shifts with teams already. Teams with title hopes and rosters have seen fluctuations in their lineups due to injuries, making trades important to keep their trajectory going. For other teams they need to be making trade with their outlook being a rebuild. Those teams include the Dallas Cowboys and Las Vegas Raiders.
The Cowboys are currently 2-2 after securing a 20-15 win over the New York Giants. This 2024 season is one where the Cowboys must succeed, as the seat is getting warm for Mike McCarthy. After both losses came from the New Orleans Saints and Baltimore Ravens, the Cowboys needed to beat the Giants. Yet, it wasn’t necessarily a dominant victory, and in the process of it lost Micah Parsons to an injury as he was carted off the field. With the staple Parsons is on defense, Dallas can’t afford a dip in the edge play, and must make a trade to ensure they don’t see a setback in production.
That’s where the Las Vegas Raiders come in. As it currently stands, the Raiders are on a trajectory to be major sellers by the trade deadline. Las Vegas does not currently have their franchise quarterback on the roster, and need to be looking to turn the team around. They can do so by getting enough draft capital to ensure they can get the best quarterback, and that might just mean trading Maxx Crosby.
While Crosby has been a leader for the Raiders, he would be someone a team like the Cowboys would give up major draft capital for. With Crosby, he is only 26, and has accumulated 387 pressures with 62 sacks and 217 stops over six seasons. That type of force would keep the production stable on the Cowboys defensive line if Parsons is to miss time, or give Dallas a talented rotation between Parsons, Demarcus Lawrence, and Crosby to create consistent havoc from the edge position for the long haul.
