This year's NFL trade deadline was more eventful than many anticipated. Trade deadlines in the NFL usually involve a few deals involving starters. Trades for star players are rare. Not this season, though. The New York Jets traded away two of their best defensive stars at the deadline, dealing Quinnen Williams to the Dallas Cowboys and Sauce Gardner to the Indianapolis Colts .

The Cowboys made a move to bolster their ailing defense by trading for Williams. As it turns out, though, Dallas wasn't the only team that wanted to acquire Williams. According to Rich Cimini, the Jacksonville Jaguars were the other team that was trying to make a run at the star defensive tackle.

“Unlike the Gardner deal, the Williams trade came late and fast,” Cimini wrote for ESPN. “Talks with the Cowboys

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