Dallas Cowboys trade rumor from Yahoo opens door for blockbuster deadline deal

The Dallas Cowboys desperately need to improve their defense if the team is going to turn its season around and make the playoffs.

Owner Jerry Jones has made it quite clear the Cowboys will be exploring trades at the deadline, but the reality of the situation is that Dallas is sitting at 2-3-1 and if things go poorly the next three games before the Nov. 4 deadline, the Cowboys could do nothing.

Yahoo Sports' Charles Robinson agrees with that notion, but he also thinks that if Dallas is still in the hunt at the end of the month, the team could aim really big to improve its defense.

Robinson names the Tennessee Titans' Jeffery Simmons and the Cincinnati Bengals' Trey Hendrickson as examples of just how high the Cowboys could aim.

And multiple sources across the league told Yahoo Sports this week they believe Jones will be listening for a plus-sized talent — on the level of the Cincinnati Bengals’ Trey Hendrickson or Tennessee Titans’ Jeffery Simmons — if Dallas is in the playoff hunt at the end of October.

Robinson goes on to add that people around the league believe Hendrickson's value is, at most, a second-round pick, or a floor of a third-rounder plus a Day 3 selection.

As for Simmons, the belief is the Titans would want a first-rounder and then some.

The problem with both players is neither one might be available.

Reports have hinted the Titans aren't going to move Simmons and the Bengals have a new spark for their once-flailing 2025 campaign in Joe Flacco, so Hendrickson is far less likely to be moved now that Cincinnati has hope to stay afloat until Joe Burrow returns from injury.

The Cowboys, of course, could use help in both areas, as the run defense is putrid and the pass-rush is seriously lacking in the post-Micah Parsons era.

Dallas is certainly equipped to pull off a blockbuster trade thanks to the picks the Cowboys acquired in the Parsons trade, but it remains to be seen if one will be available to them.

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