Insider Gets Real on Chances Jets Actually Trade Garrett Wilson

It's impossible to say that something will never happen in the NFL. The harsh reality is that the NFL is a business at the end of the day, and if teams believe they have to make moves to improve their roster, save money, or do anything else, players will always be traded. 

That doesn't mean we're going to see guys like Patrick Mahomes or Josh Allen traded in the near future, but we've seen crazier things happen in this league. 

That's what makes the NFL so great, and it also raises questions for the New York Jets to answer over the next week and a half. As the Jets enter the trade deadline, some obvious candidates are up for grabs. Expiring-contract guys, veterans who don't fit the timeline, and even a young superstar in Garrett Wilson. 

Wilson, in a strange spot in his career because of his talent but his lack of success for the team in New York since joining the Jets, shouldn't be a trade candidate. If the Jets are smart, they'll keep him around and hope that the team can build around him over the next couple of years. 

However, as the Jets showed us a year ago with Sauce Gardner, just because a guy was in the plans a few months ago doesn't mean that Darren Mougey wouldn't be willing to move on from him. 

According to the latest from The Athletic, there isn't a sense that Wilson will be traded unless he requests a trade, but it's also important to remember some of the moves Mougey made at last year's deadline.

“I don’t see a scenario where the Jets would actually trade Wilson right now, barring something unforeseen like a trade demand, which the Jets wouldn’t be required to oblige anyway. Wilson is under team control through 2030. Mougey proved in trading Gardner last year, just a few months after extending him, that anybody can be had for the right price,” Zack Rosenblatt wrote.

I think Wilson could get traded, but a team would have to blow the Jets away with a trade offer. 

As we saw last year with Gardner, if a team like the Indianapolis Colts is willing to give the Jets two first-round picks, it would be tough to justify not moving on from Wilson. In a scenario like this, let's say a squad like the Carolina Panthers or Atlanta Falcons wants to trade for Wilson. 

They both don't look to be bad teams by any means, but there's potential upside if they play as poorly as some think they could. 

Not to say that either of those teams is interested or will be, but those are the types of teams that the Jets have to try to move Wilson to, though it would make a lot more sense for squads like the San Francisco 49ers and Kansas City Chiefs to be of interest.