{"id":1010198,"date":"2026-09-25T07:51:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T07:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/1010198\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T07:51:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T07:51:20","slug":"patriots-and-cowboys-named-among-suitors-for-107m-star-if-he-gets-traded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/1010198\/","title":{"rendered":"Patriots and Cowboys Named Among Suitors for $107M Star, if He Gets Traded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a somewhat lackluster start to the season for the <a href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/new-england-patriots\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New England Patriots<\/a> after making the Super Bowl a year ago.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Things haven&#8217;t exactly looked promising on either side of the football, and that&#8217;s a bit worrisome.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Many didn&#8217;t think the Patriots would be as good as they were a year ago, though that seemed unfair.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Others questioned the organization over factors outside its control, such as last season&#8217;s schedule. It&#8217;s still important to recognize that the Patriots had to get through the AFC in the playoffs and did exactly that.<\/p>\n<p>As for ways to improve this roster, it isn&#8217;t unfair to suggest the Patriots can still improve on both sides of the football.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Adding an edge rusher who has experience making plays at a high level should be near the top of the priority list. Bleacher Report recently suggested that Maxx Crosby could be available and named the Patriots as a potential suitor alongside the Dallas Cowboys.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStill, the fact that the Raiders were previously open to moving one of the league&#8217;s most disruptive defenders will keep him on other teams&#8217; radar between now and the November 10 trade deadline.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cExpect the Raiders to get more than a few aggressive offers from Super Bowl hopefuls looking to boost their defensive fronts. Potential Suitors: Dallas Cowboys, New England Patriots,\u201d Bleacher Report <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/bleacherreport.com\/articles\/25501803-2026-nfl-trade-block-big-board-entering-week-3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wrote<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Patriots have to be careful here.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If the Las Vegas Raiders eventually move on from Crosby, many teams will be interested in him, despite the Raiders playing a bit better than some anticipated entering the year and starting 2-0.<\/p>\n<p>The price will be high, and New England might not want to pay it, depending on how things go over the next couple of weeks.<\/p>\n<p>More Patriots<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s been a somewhat lackluster start to the season for the New England Patriots after making the Super&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1010199,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2050],"tags":[7,1167,249,2326,2094,6,208],"class_list":["post-1010198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-england-patriots","tag-football","tag-new-england","tag-new-england-patriots","tag-newengland","tag-newenglandpatriots","tag-nfl","tag-patriots"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/117330593911735293","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1010198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1010199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1010198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1010198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1010198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}