Buccaneers Need Their Own J.J. McCarthy–Like Trade After Baker Mayfield’s Injury

For certain teams, it doesn’t hurt to take a flyer on a recent first-round pick who has fallen out of favor with the team that drafted them.

Perhaps the Giants weren’t the right team to make the trade for 2024 first-round pick J.J. McCarthy, but a few other teams should have pulled the trigger on that trade, which only required sending a 2027 fifth-round pick to the Vikings.