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Surprise NFL Trade Deadline Buyers Should Make These Trades
Jalen Ramsey is a cornerback for the Miami Dolphins. PHOTO USA TODAY SPORTS IMAGES You probably saw that outlandish trade proposal floating around the internet this weekend.
Former Jets general manager and current ESPN analyst Mike Tannenbaum is so in love with Browns star Myles Garrett that he thinks the Lions would be wise to give up three first-round draft picks, a second-round pick, and young running back Jahmyr Gibbs for him.
It was typical ESPN theatrics, complete with a fellow analyst performatively walking off the set. But there are two kernels of truth to take away from the bizarre idea.
The Lions need some pass-rush help in the wake of Aidan Hutchinson’s season-ending injury last month.
And the Lions are buyers. The Lions! What a world!
Indeed, the hallmark of this year’s NFL trade deadline is the collection of surprise buyers, led by a Detroit franchise with such little history of winning or making big splashes, now seriously contending for a Super Bowl and getting airtime on national airwaves debating their status.
With the trade deadline approaching Tuesday afternoon, let’s get the Lions that defensive help and highlight three other teams who don’t usually get to be in the privileged position of buyer at this time of year.
Detroit Lions Acquire Miami Dolphins DE Calais Campbell
Detroit Lions head coach Dan Campbell. Dan Campbell source: AP Cleveland won’t part with Garrett, but NBC’s Pro Football Talk connected another Browns defender, Za’Darius Smith, to Detroit on Sunday night.
The Lions may have several other options as well. I previously wrote about them pursuing Haason Reddick, but it looks like he’s finally content to play for the Jets.
Then there’s Calais Campbell, who at 38 projects as an affordable half-year rental and surely wouldn’t mind leaving the sinking Dolphins for the opportunity to go deep in the playoffs with the Lions. How can we be so sure coach Dan Campbell likes the player who shares his surname? Here he was being open about the Lions’ pursuit of the defensive star less than two years ago.
Arizona Cardinals Acquire New York Giants Pass Rusher Azeez Ojulari
The Cardinals handled the Bears, and the Rams sent the Seahawks tumbling below .500, meaning that at the end of Week 9, 5-4 Arizona is your surprise leader in the NFC West. Quick question to everyone who saw that coming: Why are you lying to me?
Arizona is hardly a great contender — the team has a minus-7 point differential on the year — but it should be serious about pulling together the best team possible to make a playoff run while the window is open.
That means finding help for the pass rush after BJ Ojulari suffered a season-ending knee injury in August and Dennis Gardeck tore his ACL two weeks ago.
Going after BJ’s brother, Azeez Ojulari, makes all the sense in the world. The Giants are going nowhere fast and have already relegated their 2021 second-round pick to a backup role behind Brian Burns and Kayvon Thibodeaux. But Ojulari has performed all the same, racking up five sacks in three weeks when Thibodeaux got hurt and adding two QB hits Sunday against Washington.
Washington Commanders Acquire New England Patriots CB Jonathan Jones
ESPN reported Saturday that “players,” in general, would like to be traded to the Commanders.
It would be such a thin attempt at a news story except for the fact that Washington was about the last place any player would ever want to wind up in the Dan Snyder ownership era. This is news. This is the new era of football in the greater Landover, Maryland area.
Specifically, multiple reports agree the Commanders want to improve at cornerback. They have the cap space to bring in Jonathan Jones, the Patriots’ CB1, who is a prime trade candidate as New England plummets to the bottom of the AFC and needs to rebuild.
Cincinnati Bengals Acquire Miami Dolphins CB Jalen Ramsey
You wanna get nuts?
Cincinnati is the ultimate surprise buyer. The Athletic reported the Bengals are making calls, despite having an owner with a skinflinty reputation and acquiring just two players via trade in 52 years.
The Bengals have been weak at cornerback dating back to their 2021 Super Bowl run. There’s perhaps no more compelling way to address that than by trading for one of the best cornerbacks in the NFL.
Ramsey is no stranger to being dealt from team to team, but he’s still a perennial Pro Bowler and just grabbed his first interception of the season Sunday. Yes, he just signed an extension with Miami before the season, but at 2-6, the Dolphins have every reason to hit reset and flip Ramsey’s contract for future assets.
How does three first-round draft picks, a second-round pick and a young running back sound? Kidding.
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Manchester City look to extend win streak, take on Everton
[Subscription Customers Only] Jun 30, 2025; Orlando, Florida, USA; Manchester City forward Erling Haaland (9) celebrates scoring their second goal with midfielder Rodri (16) during a round of 16 match of the 2025 FIFA Club World Cup at Camping World Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Lee Smith-Reuters via Imagn Images Manchester City will try to keep pace with Premier League front-runner Arsenal on Monday night when they pay a visit to an Everton side still on the fringes of the European picture.
City (21-5-7, 70 points) will begin the day six points back of Arsenal with two matches in hand after the Gunners dispatched Fulham 3-0 on Saturday. The Cityzens won’t be even on games played until May 13, when they make up a postponed match against Crystal Palace that was delayed because of City’s triumphant League Cup run.
As a result, there continues to be the appearance of a chase, although the teams would finish level on points if they win out.
Manager Pep Guardiola insists it shouldn’t matter.
“It’s normal, so it’s the calendar,” Guardiola said on Friday. “Sometimes you play first. Sometimes behind. It is what it is. So, nothing changes in these stages, and you know exactly what you have to do.”
City have won six in a row in all competitions, the last three by a single goal: A 2-1 home league win over the Gunners on April 19, a 1-0 league victory at Burnley three days later, and a 2-1 FA Cup semifinal triumph over Southampton on April 25.
Erling Haaland scored once in both league fixtures to bring his EPL-leading total to 24. In the FA Cup semifinal, Jeremy Doku and Nico Gonzalez scored inside the final 10 minutes to complete a late rally.
Everton (13-13-8, 47 points) finished Saturday in 11th place, but only four points out of seventh, which currently would earn a berth in the UEFA Europa Conference League. Should City win the FA Cup, it could be the top eight English league finishers who earn a spot in Europe.
And if Everton could return to continental competition for the first time since 2017-18, it would conclude a much-improved first season at their new Hill Dickson Stadium, after bringing the curtain down on historic Goodison Park last May.
“We still believe there could be something out there for us. And we’ll keep pushing,” manager David Moyes said. “Building Everton back up is a process which I think is going to take quite a bit of time, but I think the first year or so here, we’ve certainly put decent foundations down. And hopefully we can continue to build on it.”
The Toffees are looking to avoid a third consecutive league defeat for the first time this season after a 2-1 home loss to derby rivals Liverpool on April 19 and a 2-1 away defeat at West Ham last weekend.
Beto, one of two Everton players with eight goals, departed the former contest late with a head injury and missed the latter fixture working through the league’s concussion protocol. He should be available Monday night, Moyes said.
–Field Level Media
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Yankees tee off on Orioles to win third straight in 4-game series
May 3, 2026; Bronx, New York, USA; New York Yankees right fielder Aaron Judge (99) hits a two run home run in the third inning against the Baltimore Orioles at Yankee Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Wendell Cruz-Imagn Images Jasson Dominguez scored the tiebreaking run in the sixth inning before hitting a two-run homer and an RBI double during a seven-run eighth as the New York Yankees pulled away for an 11-3 victory over the visiting Baltimore Orioles on Sunday afternoon.
The Yankees won for the 13th time in 15 games and beat the Orioles for the 11th time in the past 12 meetings.
Aaron Judge hit a two-run homer off Baltimore rookie Trey Gibson. Ben Rice hit his 12th home run of the season in the first and doubled ahead of Judge’s 13th homer in the third.
Rice exited after the Yankees batted in the third because of a bruised left hand. The Yankees announced X-rays were negative and the first baseman is day-to-day. Rice appeared to get injured fielding a low pickoff throw from Max Fried and was replaced by Paul Goldschmidt.
Dominguez started the tiebreaking rally with a double to left field against Grant Wolfram (1-1) and advanced to third on a groundout by Austin Wells. Ryan McMahon, facing a drawn-in infield, followed with a single that first baseman Coby Mayo couldn’t handle after diving to stop it.
Dominguez started New York’s big inning with a two-run drive into the right field seats off Andrew Kittredge for a 6-3 lead. After an RBI sacrifice fly by Trent Grisham, Goldschmidt ripped a two-run single after the Yankees executed a double steal.
Following a sacrifice fly by Jazz Chisholm Jr., Dominguez added a double to left field for an 11-3 lead.
The Orioles tied it twice before losing their fourth straight and for the 12th time in 18 games.
Blaze Alexander had an RBI single in the third before getting thrown out trying to stretch the hit into a double. After Judge’s 413-foot drive bounced into Baltimore’s bullpen in left field, Leody Taveras hit an RBI infield single and Tyler O’Neill scored on a double play grounder by Jeremiah Jackson in the fourth.
Fried allowed three runs on six hits in 5 1/3 innings. The left-hander struck out six and walked three.
Fernando Cruz (3-0) got the final two outs of the sixth and the first out of the seventh. Brent Headrick ended the eighth by getting a double play grounder against Mayo.
Gibson allowed three runs on four hits in 4 2/3 innings during his major league debut.
The four-game series concludes Monday.
–Field Level Media
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Cam Smith drives in 2 in 10th, Astros edge Red Sox
May 3, 2026; Boston, Massachusetts, USA; Houston Astros right fielder Cam Smith (11) hits a two run RBI against the Boston Red Sox during the tenth inning at Fenway Park. Mandatory Credit: Eric Canha-Imagn Images Cam Smith had three hits, including a two-run single in the top of the 10th inning, to help the visiting Houston Astros earn a 3-1 victory over the Boston Red Sox on Sunday.
Smith’s two-out single came against Zack Kelly (0-2) and drove in Braden Shewmake and Jose Altuve.
Boston had the bases loaded with one out in the bottom of the 10th, but Bryan Abreu got Ceddanne Rafaela to ground into a double play to end the game.
Jarren Duran hit a solo home run for the Red Sox, who stranded 13 runners and were 0-for-11 with runners in scoring position. Duran’s home run was his third of the season and his second of the series. He hit a three-run homer in Boston’s 3-1 victory Friday night.
Abreu (1-2) pitched two scoreless innings to get the win. He gave up one hit, walked one and struck out one.
Willson Contreras collected three of Boston’s nine hits in the loss.
Christian Walker and Christian Vazquez each had two-hit games for the Astros, who won two games in the three-game set.
Boston starting pitcher Ranger Suarez was pulled after four scoreless innings because of hamstring tightness. He gave up three hits, walked one and struck out three. Suarez threw 70 pitches.
Duran’s home run off Houston reliever AJ Blubaugh opened the scoring in the fifth. Houston tied the game in the sixth, when Walker reached on an infield single, took third on Altuve’s double and scored on a sacrifice fly by Brice Matthews.
The Red Sox had a chance to win the game in the bottom of the ninth. An error on Abreu allowed Contreras to reach second with two outs in the inning, but Roman Anthony grounded out to first to end the inning.
Houston had the bases loaded with no outs in the 10th, but Altuve grounded into a 6-2-5 double play. Following a walk to Matthews, Smith delivered his two-run single.
–Field Level Media
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