2025 NFL trade deadline: Which teams improved, which clubs should have made moves

The 2025 trade deadline provided the NFL's most action-packed trade deadline of the 21st century

Twenty-seven players were traded in season in 2025, the most during a year in the past 25 seasons. Three first-round picks changed hands and went over to the New York Jets in their star-studded moves that shipped All-Pro cornerback Sauce Gardner to the Indianapolis Colts and All-Pro defensive tackle Quinnen Williams to the Dallas Cowboys . The 2025 Jets are the only two in the last 45 years to trade two former first team All-Pros in the same day, per CBS Sports Research.

With roster around the league solidified with the traded deadline now in the past, here's a look at which NFL teams improved the most, and which teams should have picked up the phone.

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