The 2026 NFL trade deadline hits Tuesday at 4 p.m., and the league is bracing for movement. Week 9 felt unusually quiet — but as Yahoo Sports framed it, that calm may be exactly what precedes a deadline storm.

The biggest name on the board is Colts running back Jonathan Taylor, who headlines CBS Sports' rundown of who's buying and who's selling, alongside what it calls a few wild cards still in play. In Tennessee, league insiders point to receiver Calvin Ridley as the most likely Titans player to be moved before the cutoff, as the team weighs whether to be active at all.

Contenders are shopping, too. The Denver Broncos have been floated as a team that could make a splash, with at least five realistic targets identified ahead of Tuesday — the kind of aggressive move that separates deadline buyers from bystanders.

Once the deadline passes, teams are locked into their rosters for the stretch run outside of waiver claims and free-agent signings, which raises the pressure on fringe contenders to decide now which side of the buy/sell line they're on. The next 48 hours will sort the all-in from the already-planning-for-April.