2 trades the Giants should make proposed by ESPN

Meyers has been quiet for the Raiders this season. After a 98-yard day for Las Vegas in the opening-week win over the Patriots, Meyers has averaged just 46 yards per game since. The 28-year-old is in the final year of his three-year, $33 million deal, and while Meyers requested a trade in camp, the Raiders declined to deal their top wideout. This will likely be his last season in silver and black, and Vegas probably wouldn’t mind moving the $7 million remaining on Meyers’ deal in 2025 elsewhere.

The Raiders would have to eat some of that money to get this deal done, but let’s say they pay $3 million as part of this trade and open up a spot in their lineup for second-round pick Jack Bech. In return, they would land the fourth cornerback off the board in the 2023 draft in Banks. Still only 24, Banks has the size (6-foot-2) and frame that Pete Carroll typically loves in his CBs, a position where the Raiders are hardly settled. Eric Stokes is on a one-year deal, while Kyu Blu Kelly has allowed a 122.5 rating in coverage, per Pro Football Reference.

The Giants clearly liked Banks enough to use a first-round pick on him, but he has never put things together in New York. The Giants stripped Banks of his starting job this season, rotating him with Cor’Dale Flott across from Paulson Adebo. And over the past few weeks, Banks was beaten on a double-move for a touchdown by the Chargers’ Quentin Johnston in Week 4 and then committed a 25-yard pass interference penalty early in the Week 5 Saints game against Chris Olave. He has played just 10 defensive snaps over the past two weeks, seemingly falling out of the rotation at cornerback.

Getting one former Giants quarterback has worked out well for the Colts, with Daniel Jones currently leading the NFL in QBR (79.7). Why not try to collect the whole set? In all seriousness, Indy needs a backup behind Jones, who has completed a full season as a starter without missing time with injuries just once in his seven-year pro career. Jones’ sack rate is thankfully way down, but he’s still taking hits on 13.3% of his snaps this season.

This was probably already a need before Anthony Richardson Sr. fractured his orbital bone in a freak pregame incident before Sunday’s win over the Cardinals and was put on injured reserve. If Jones did go down, the next man up would be former Notre Dame quarterback Riley Leonard, who was taken in the sixth round of this year’s draft. It’s fun to think about GM Chris Ballard pulling out his old quarterback Rolodex and calling up Andrew Luck or Philip Rivers to come play for a playoff team, but the Colts don’t want to be stuck turning to an untested rookie if Jones gets hurt.

Enter Wilson, who is clearly surplus to requirements in New York after being benched for Jaxson Dart. Wilson has made fill-in appearances twice over the past three weeks while Dart was being evaluated for injuries, but the Giants could easily turn that role over to Jameis Winston, who has been the third quarterback all season. Wilson didn’t look great for most of his brief tenure in New York, but we did see him torch the Cowboys for 450 yards and three touchdowns in Week 2.

We’ve also seen Jones look much better after leaving the Giants to join the Colts (after a brief stop in Minnesota last season). I wouldn’t expect the same sort of leap out of Wilson, but could he be a passable starter if the Colts need someone to step in? It wouldn’t be expensive to find out: Indianapolis would be giving up only a seventh-round pick and would owe Wilson about $1.3 million over the remainder of 2025, which will likely be the 36-year-old’s final season of professional football.

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