NFL competition committee reportedly expected to talk strategy on eliminating future trade snafus

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The NFL competition committee is reportedly expected to discuss how to eliminate future trade snafus after multiple teams altered or backed out of agreed-upon deals either before or after the league’s trade deadline passed on Tuesday afternoon.

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With front-office executives voicing their discontent, the committee is anticipated to address the matter during the offseason, according to Saturday report from ESPN’s Adam Schefter and NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport.

Executives reportedly raised concerns about trade terms still being negotiable after they’re agreed to.

Here’s a rewind of what went down this week:

Los Angeles Chargers head coach Jim Harbaugh suggested the league look into a “loophole” he said the Denver Broncos leveraged after the deadline to coax the Chargers into taking less compensation for linebacker Daiyan Henley.

The teams had agreed to a trade that was going to send Henley to Denver, with L.A. receiving a 2027 fourth-round pick and a 2028 fifth-round pick in return.

But the Broncos were reportedly granted permission to revisit the terms of the deal after consulting with the NFL on Wednesday, a day after the deadline. Denver, according to a Thursday report from The Athletic, determined that its medical evaluation of the soon-to-be 27-year-old Henley didn't align with the information the Chargers put forth prior to the trade agreement.

Like any trade, the completion of this one was pending a physical. While Denver failed Henley on his physical to due to a knee issue, it still tried to rework the deal with the Chargers, per The Athletic. At that point, though, because the deadline had passed, L.A. couldn’t shop around for other trade partners. So its options were to (1) accept the revised terms or (2) call it off and welcome Henley back.

"I mean, it's a medical grade. It's a pass-fail for a medical grade,” Harbaugh said in his Thursday news conference. “And they told us they weren't going to pass him if it was a fourth and a fifth, which was agreed upon. They would not pass them for that. They would pass him for a fourth and a fill in the blank."

When the reporter following up inquired to confirm that the Broncos tried to downgrade the second pick in the deal — the 2028 fifth-rounder — Harbaugh said, “Correct.”

Denver was still willing to take on Henley, albeit without making as big of an investment after carrying out its own medical assessment of the fourth-year defender. L.A. didn’t acquiesce, and the trade fell through.

Hours before Tuesday’s trade deadline, it was reported that the Cincinnati Bengals agreed a deal that would land them Philadelphia Eagles edge rusher Arnold Ebiketie. In exchange, the Bengals were reportedly poised to give up a sixth-round pick.

But, really, the agreed-upon trade was going to be more costly for Cincinnati due to the compensatory-pick formula. Essentially, because the Eagles signed Ebiketie as a compensatory free agent this past offseason, the Bengals would actually forfeit a third-round compensatory pick if the trade went through.

This potential problem was flagged on social media by analysts before the trade ultimately broke down.

The Bengals backed out from the trade, leaving the selling Eagles hanging. That was a bad look for Cincinnati, and the optics only worsened when director of player personnel Duke Tobin sent head coach Zac Taylor out to explain the situation on Wednesday.

“Obviously, we tried something yesterday,” Taylor said. “Duke was very explicit with me when he came and spoke to me of how he wanted this portrayed. I'm not comfortable doing it, but I'm going to do what he asked.

“We did make an effort to kind of put some depth in there in place of Cashius [Howell]. As we got into it, obviously it was going to be a little more costly than we initially anticipated. He's really apologetic about it and wants to make clear: Philly was a great trade partner. It was on our end.”

Less notably, the Detroit Lions and New York Jets altered the compensation they originally agreed on in the Andre Cisco trade. The Lions wound up getting the safety for a 2029 sixth-rounder. Initially, Detroit was going to deal a 2028 sixth-round pick.

This has all led to a collection of front-office executives maintaining that trade terms shouldn’t be changed once they’re agreed upon, as reported by ESPN and NFL Network.

One possible solution, per that report, is the league preventing teams from altering draft picks following a trade agreement. In other words, teams would then only have the option to accept or reject a deal after a player’s physical.

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