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The NFL trade deadline is quickly approaching, and contending franchises should be aggressive in their pursuit to improve their roster before the playoffs. Generally, the trade deadline has been a quiet affair across the league. There has been a resurgence of player trades this season, totaling 32 since the end of the 2015 NFL draft.

With 10 teams holding at least $10 million of cap space, there is plenty of room for more deals by early November. Although it’s not as easy to plug and play NFL athletes as it is in baseball or basketball, it’s realistic to expect players at certain positions to react well to a deal. The quarterback position would be the most difficult one to force a midseason change, seeing as QBs don’t have the benefit of sub-packages to ease their workload.

We’ve accumulated the eight best trade targets worth acquiring for franchises. Some are veterans in the last year of their contracts, while others will be under team control for several more seasons. There’s also a projected compensation price for each player.

For that, we’re using the compensatory pick model to help determine value. Remember, if a team allows a big free agent to depart and doesn’t fill his salary void or impact, it'll likely get a compensatory pick for the 2017 draft. So any deal must be right around the projected value for the team trading away the talent for the pick.

Let’s jump in and take a look at who should be on the market, and the teams that should be calling before the trade deadline on November 3.