Why Has the NFL Finally Started Embracing the Art of Trading Players?

March 21, 2015   ·   Ty Schalter   ·   Jump to comments

In the span of about two weeks, 15 NFL players with a combined 24 Pro Bowl berths were swapped around 10 different NFL rosters. This March been the wildest month of trades in the last 20 years, and it isn't even over.
More than that, it may signal the start of a freewheeling new NFL era.
For years, popular wisdom has held that NFL teams don't consummate a lot of trades—especially not trades involving difference-making superstars like Jimmy Graham, LeSean McCoy and Haloti Ngata. The acceleration of prorated bonuses against the salary cap made moving stars incredibly difficult, if not impossible.
But was popular wisdom right? Are we remembering correctly, or have the years dulled our senses of just how much teams used to wheel and deal?
Using Fox Sports' NFL transaction database, which has data going back 20 years, we can compare this year's trades (using the data from March to project 2015's numbers) against two decades of trends.
The sheer number of playe...

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