NFL commerce grades: Tank Bigsby dealt from Jaguars to Eagles

Let’s grade trades from the 2025 NFL season. When a deal occurs, we regularly hear the outdated adage that it’ll take years to understand how effectively every group did within the deal. To that I say: nonsense. Common managers do not get the good thing about hindsight whereas they’re making their selections, so why ought to we when evaluating these selections?

That is a good distance of claiming I am an enormous fan of commerce grades, which doc our response in the meanwhile a deal is made. When grading trades, I consider them for every group based mostly on on-field affect, cap implications, draft compensation and results inside the context of a group’s general short- and long-term outlook. I like to consider selections on two axes:

They’re going to each play a task in our grades, although a low-impact choice can nonetheless obtain a robust or poor grade. Low-stakes, clear-cut wins or losses nonetheless matter.

Let’s dive in on in-season offers main as much as NFL commerce deadline on Nov. 4. We’ll begin with the Eagles buying operating again Tank Bigsby from the Jaguars.

Eagles get: RB Tank Bigsby
Jaguars get: 2026 fifth-round decide, 2026 sixth-round decide

Eagles grade: C-
Jaguars grade: A

Eagles basic supervisor Howie Roseman wins extra trades than anybody, however he would not win ’em all.

In Bigsby, the Eagles purchase a really stable runner. The 2023 third-round decide gathered a formidable 124 rush yards over expectation final season, per NFL Subsequent Gen Stats, after a disappointing rookie marketing campaign.

However that is all he’s, which is his draw back. Bigsby provides nearly nothing within the receiving sport; he has solely eight profession receptions. He has cross blocked on solely 33 snaps in his professional profession. And he evidently did not win the beginning job in Jacksonville this season regardless of not dealing with significantly stiff competitors in Travis Etienne Jr. and fourth-round rookie Bhayshul Tuten.

This commerce makes it clear that the Eagles felt they wanted operating again depth behind Saquon Barkley. They’ve Will Shipley, who figures to be extra of a receiving complement and backup — very totally different from Bigsby. However my first response was, wow, that is rather a lot for a backup at a nonpremium place who would not catch passes, particularly contemplating how a lot Philadelphia has already invested at operating again with Barkley. Even with Bigsby underneath management for one more rookie contract 12 months in 2026, it is a bit a lot for my liking.

Bigsby might additionally associate with Shipley on kick returns after having returned 11 kicks in his profession. It is a extra necessary position now than earlier than given the precipitous drop in touchbacks, but it surely would not change that the Eagles gave up rather a lot for Bigsby.

It is a good outcome for Jacksonville, although. It appeared probably that one among Etienne or Bigsby can be dealt after the addition of Tuten on this 12 months’s draft. That it occurred now could be an upset. However in change for his or her second- or third-string operating again, the Jaguars are receiving a fifth- and sixth-round decide. That is nice worth, and it hardly leaves Jacksonville short-handed contemplating Bigsby did not begin.