Let's grade trades from the 2025 NFL season . When a deal happens, we often hear the old adage that it will take years to know how well each team did. To that I say: Nonsense. General managers don't get the benefit of hindsight while they are making their decisions, so why should we when evaluating those decisions?

That's a long way of saying I'm a big fan of trade grades, which document our reaction at the moment a deal is made. When grading trades, I evaluate them for each team based on on-field impact, cap implications, draft compensation and effects within the context of a team's overall short-term and long-term outlook. I like to think about decisions on two axes:

How confident are we in knowing if this is a good or bad decision?

How big is the impact of this decision?

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