It’s been a fun discussion around the league of late that Maxx Crosby could be had in a trade. But it was always unfounded pipe dreams type stuff. On Saturday, Raiders owner Mark Davis put an end to those hopes, telling ESPN’s Adam Schefter that the team will not be trading Crosby either before or after the deadline.
Raiders owner Mark Davis in an email this weekend to ESPN: “We’re Not Trading Maxx Crosby. Before Or After The Trade Deadline!!!”https://t.co/tTjJn39nyq
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) October 27, 2024
It started when Davante Adams was sent to the Jets. Suddenly everyone saw the Raiders as starting a tear down and rebuild. And when gutting a team, the discussions always surround the team’s most valuable assets.
No asset on the Raiders is more valuable than Maxx Crosby. He would garner potentially multiple first round picks.
But trading him would be the most obvious signal this team is ripping this team to the studs and starting over. A team that just a few months ago had the best defense in the league. A team that weeks ago thought of itself as being a solid QB away from competing.
They may be farther away than that as it turns out, but they don’t appear nearly ready to go scorched earth on the roster.
Trading away Davante Adams was not a signal for anything but that Adams wanted out so he could join his old pas Aaron Rodgers in New York where he thinks he’ll have a shot at the playoffs and putting up big numbers again. And that’s all it was a signal of.
