2023 NFL Season: 3 major in-season trades that could go down

2023 NFL Season: 3 major in-season trades that could go down

DT Aaron Donald to the Baltimore Ravens

The last trade proposal I’m making in the 2023 NFL season is Aaron Donald being traded to the Baltimore Ravens.  Donald is in an interesting situation.  He flirted with retirement recently but decided to re-up with the Los Angeles Rams on a huge contract extension.

However, heading into the 2023 NFL season, the Rams do not look like a serious team, and I’m wondering if Donald is already planning his escape from the team if the beginning of the season does not go well.  Outside of Ronald, Cooper Kupp, and Matthew Stafford, the Rams don’t have much else and I don’t see them being a viable playoff team.

Why would Donald want to waste the last year or so of his career on a bad team?  If he went to the Rams’ front office and asked for a trade, they’d most definitely owe it to the greatest defensive player of all time to ship him off to his team of choice.

I don’t think there’d be anyway the Rams would refuse to trade him.  LA could get a decent haul of draft picks back for Donald, which would greatly help them in a rebuild.

I’m proposing him going to the Baltimore Ravens, simply because I think the Ravens could be in a spot to add at the deadline and believe that they could use a boost along their defensive line.  Their pass rushers are questionable and I think their interior defensive is on the weaker end.

Donald being inserted into a defense that has underperformed in recent years would be a nice boost.  The Ravens defense did play much better after their acquisition of Roquan Smith and Marlon Humphrey and Kyle Hamilton patrolling the secondary would give the Ravens legitimate playmakers at each level of their defense.