Two NFL Teams Were Reportedly Interested in Trading for Tony Pollard

The Tennessee Titans traded safety Amani Hooker at the deadline and kept running back Tony Pollard and Calvin Ridley. 

Hooker, Pollard and Ridley were all linked to trades leading up to Tuesday. The reporting indicated that the Titans were keen on not trading Hooker or Pollard, but were listening to offers for Ridley. 

We'll never know if Sunday's altercation at the Nashville Airport led to any trade suitors losing interest in Ridley, but he is still with the Titans for now. 

The Titans got a second-round pick for Hooker from the Buffalo Bills. We'll never know what the Titans could have gotten for Pollard if they made him available for a trade. 

However, we do know which teams were interested in him at the deadline. NFL Analyst Jordan Schultz reported that two teams were looking into trading for Pollard. 

Those teams were the Denver Broncos and New York Giants. 

The Broncos are in desperate need of a running back after the unfortunate injuries they've had at the position. R.J. Harvey and Tyler Badie are on injured reserve. 

The only running backs on the roster are Jonah Coleman and J.K. Dobbins. Those two are not playing at the level Pollard is. 

The Giants don't have as many injuries as the Broncos do, but they could use more depth at running back. Cam Skattebo is also nursing a hamstring injury that kept him out of the lineup in Week 9. 

Outside of him, the other running backs they have consist of Devin Singletary and Gregory Desrosiers. 

This isn't the first time that the Giants have taken interest in a Titans player this season. Head coach John Harbaugh did something that isn't viewed very highly in the NFL. 

Before the Titans traded Jeffery Simmons to the Chicago Bears, teams like the Giants had asked about his availability. The Titans made it clear that they had no intention of trading Simmons until Bears General Manager Ryan Poles made Mike Borgonzi an offer he couldn't refuse. 

Three drafts picks was a solid haul for Simmons and Borgonzi couldn't turn that down. The way that trades typically work in the NFL is for GMs to call each other and ask about players. 

That wasn't what Harbaugh did. It came out that he stepped over Borgonzi and went straight to Titans Owner Amy Adams-Strunk to talk about a trade for Simmons. 

This upset one anonymous NFL GM, who said that it broke an unwritten rule in the league. 

It seems that Harbaugh was desperate to land Simmons. So much so that he didn't care about protocol. 

The Giants tried to get Pollard too. It'll be interesting to see if the head coach or GM from the Giants was asking around.