We might as well get this out of the way right off the jump—the trades listed in the column you are about to peruse are unlikely to happen.

Actually, “unlikely to happen” is probably being kind—the odds that teams will be willing to trade star players this late in the offseason aren’t good.

If an offer good enough to pry that player away was going to come, it probably would have.

But there’s a chance. A chance that as we move through the summer, a contender will realize that an area of weakness just has to be addressed.

Or that an injury will open a new one—one prominent enough that a team will be forced to up its offer.

Or maybe a team will just decide that to take a run at Super Bowl LIX, it needs to make a splash.

Conversely, a seller may realize that a contract-year player just isn’t re-signing next year.

That it can either sell for the best offer now or take a chance with a compensatory pick in 2025.

Were one of these admittedly unlikely deals to get done, though, it wouldn’t just send a ripple across the NFL.

Or get a mention in the middle of SportsCenter.

It would give a division the snow globe treatment. Or a conference. Or the entire league.