Either of the Jets' Tuesday trades, of CB Sauce Gardner to Indianapolis and DL Quinnen Williams to Dallas, certainly fits the definition of a word many football observers are using on NFL trade deadline day — "Blockbuster." Either one is not the first such colossal trade of a Green & White player for a huge haul of draft capital in franchise history.

But taken together, Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2025, has to be considered the biggest day of players-for-picks trading in franchise history.

And in the particulars of the two trades of former first-round draft choices — Gardner to the Colts for two first-round picks (in 2026 and '27) and WR Adonai Marshall, then Williams to the Cowboys for a first-rounder ('27) and a second-rounder ('26) — the Jets, including their own Round 1 picks in the next two dr

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