{"id":766777,"date":"2026-02-21T12:32:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T12:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/766777\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T12:32:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T12:32:22","slug":"espn-writers-give-trade-scenarios-for-maxx-crosby-one-hilariously-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/766777\/","title":{"rendered":"ESPN writers give trade scenarios for Maxx Crosby, one hilariously bad"},"content":{"rendered":"

Feb. 20, 2026, 11:04 a.m. PT<\/p>\n

Everyone loves trade fodder. Maxx Crosby’s angry response to being sat down<\/a> for the final two games for a meniscus injury he insisted he could play through sparked the fire and his refusal to say anything about it<\/a> since has only added fuel to the blaze since then. And, of course, the NFL media loves this because they get to create a whole lot of content surrounding it. And, in some cases, come up with some wild trade scenarios.<\/p>\n

ESPN asked several of their NFL writers to each put together hypothetical trades for the 28-year-old Pro Bowl edge rusher<\/a>. Some of which are unrealistic to the point of being downright unserious.<\/p>\n

We will start with the most absurd. It comes from Seth Walder for the Chargers<\/a> and it reads more like clickbait. So, I’m sorry for falling for it.<\/p>\n

Seth Walder’s offer:<\/p>\n

Raiders<\/a> get: 2026 second-round pick (No. 55 overall), 2026 sixth-round pick, 2027 fifth-round pick<\/p>\n

Chargers get: Crosby<\/p>\n

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Walder never explains why the compensation is so slim, saying only that the Raiders would be taking draft capital from a rival. Never mentioning that failing to even get anything higher than the 55th overall pick without so much as a star player included is not nearly enough. Not in any universe. The Chargers would simply be stealing a Pro Bowl edge rusher who would no doubt wreak havoc on his former team twice a season for several years. This laughable deal would absolutely never happen and we should all feel dumber having read it.<\/p>\n

The other deals don’t come close to reaching the Micah Parsons trade level<\/a> (two firsts and a star player) some might have expected\/hoped. All seem to be fairly similar deals, however.<\/p>\n

Jeremy Fowler’s offer:<\/p>\n

Raiders get: WR DJ Moore, 2026 first-round pick (No. 25 overall), 2027 third-round pick<\/p>\n

Chargers get: Crosby<\/p>\n

Dan Graziano’s offer:<\/p>\n

Raiders get: WR George Pickens, 2026 first-round pick (No. 20 overall)<\/p>\n

Cowboys<\/a> get: Crosby, 2026 second-round pick (No. 36 overall)<\/p>\n

Ben Solak’s offer:<\/p>\n

Raiders get: WR Chris Godwin Jr., 2026 first-round pick (No. 15 overall), 2027 second-round pick<\/p>\n

Buccaneers<\/a> get: Crosby, 2027 fifth-round pick<\/p>\n

In each case, the interested team sends the Raiders a much-needed receiver plus a top pick and, in two cases, a future pick as well. Still, not massive hauls like the Parsons deal, but there seems to be some consensus here of the compensation being a receiver, top pick, and a future pick.<\/p>\n

We don’t know at this point if Crosby even will be traded, and what the Raiders would get and from whom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Feb. 20, 2026, 11:04 a.m. PT Everyone loves trade fodder. Maxx Crosby’s angry response to being sat down…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":766778,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2026],"tags":[95878,7,15978,97498,95882,96089,104574,96256,95892,96253,95885,97085,96167,95896,95888,95895,95897,95883,96239,95881],"class_list":{"0":"post-766777","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-sstssportsnflraiders","11":"tag-sstsnraiders","12":"tag-tagamerican-football","13":"tag-tagchicago-bears","14":"tag-tagchris-godwin","15":"tag-tagdallas-cowboys","16":"tag-tagespn-inc","17":"tag-taggeorge-pickens","18":"tag-taglas-vegas-raiders","19":"tag-taglos-angeles-chargers","20":"tag-tagmicah-parsons","21":"tag-tagnational-sports","22":"tag-tagnfl","23":"tag-tagnfl-hub","24":"tag-tagoverall-negative","25":"tag-tagsports-news","26":"tag-tagtampa-bay-buccaneers","27":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116108640153987128","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766777","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=766777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/766778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=766777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=766777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=766777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}