When Shedeur Sanders was still on the board in the fourth round of the 2025 NFL draft, the Cleveland Browns decided to aggressively pursue him. According to ESPN's Daniel Oyefusi, Browns general manager Andrew Berry "worked hard" to find a trade that would bring Sanders to Cleveland as his fall continued early on Day 3.

The San Francisco 49ers made George Kittle the highest-paid tight end in the NFL when they signed him to a four-year, $76.4 million contract extension earlier this week. Fresh off his fourth 1,000-yard season,

"[W]e felt like moving back would ... give us flexibility to do what we want to do," Broncos GM George Paton said.