During the trade period, which runs from the offseason to the middle of the regular season, teams get excited as they identify their targets, but sometimes, the deal they worked so hard on never happens. When teams weigh what they have to give up to complete a trade, they might say to themselves, "It's not worth it". Sometimes the team at the opposite end of the transaction refuses to give up a vital player.
Trading key players to get better picks in the following year's NFL Draft is common among NFL teams. However, that approach is a longer-term endeavor. Teams pursuing immediate gratification won't go that route, feeling it's not worth the gamble.
But these trades looked so perfect on paper that many were disappointed they didn't end up getting done. Here are 10 huge NFL trades that almost happened and would have changed the league—but didn't. No team goes into a trade planning to get burned, but not everything goes according to plan.
Here are the 10 worst trades in NFL history. Many consider one of the most talented quarterbacks to grace the league. Ironically, the have had one of the worst rosters in the NFL for more than a decade now.
Could Aaron Rodgers have changed things up for them? Well, no one would ever know because the deal never happened. It almost did though. In 2007, before , the Packers eyed Randy Moss and were willing to give up Rodgers.
Talk about immediate gratification. They had their eyes set on the that year and in their eyes, Moss was the man to take.
