NFL owners have made several decisions at the recent owners’ meeting, including adjustments to the trade deadline.
The league announced on Tuesday that the NFL’s trade deadline for the 2024 season will be extended by one week. This means that the deadline will now occur on the Tuesday following Week 9 of the regular season, specifically on November 5th.
This change provides teams with additional time to make trades and adjustments to their rosters as they navigate the latter part of the season.
In previous years, the NFL’s trade deadline had typically fallen one week earlier in the season.
A December report had suggested that a change to the deadline was improbable.
However, teams like the Cleveland Browns, along with others, advocated for extending the deadline by two weeks.
This proposal aimed to align the trade deadline with the expanded regular season, which now comprises 17 games, and potentially prepare for further expansion to eighteen games in the future.
Several NFL clubs had proposed extending the trade deadline even further, with some suggesting it should be moved past Week 10. However, this proposal failed to gain approval, with the league ultimately deciding that extending the deadline to post-Week 9 was the preferable option.
Among the proposals, Cleveland Browns general manager Andrew Berry put forward the idea of moving the deadline to Week 10 which was supported by the Detroit Lions, New York Jets, Philadelphia Eagles, and Washington Commanders.
Despite this support, it was the Pittsburgh Steelers’ proposal to push the deadline back by just one week that received the necessary three-fourths approval to pass.
Since 2012, the NFL trade deadline had occurred on the Tuesday following Week 8. However, with the recent decision, teams will now have until November 5 at 4 p.m. ET to finalize any transactions before the start of the second half of the regular season.
