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By Reice Shipley
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The Las Vegas Raiders appear destined to be sellers at the NFL trade deadline next month amid their 2-5 start to the 2025 season. With that in mind, Raiders disgruntled wide receiver Jakobi Meyers made it incredibly clear that he would still like to be moved at the deadline.
Ahead of the start of the regular season, Meyers requested a trade from the organization after talks on a contract extension stalled. As a result, Meyers has been one of the more highly discussed players in trade rumors over the past few weeks as we approach the November 4 trade deadline.
Through the first seven weeks of the season, Meyers hadn't made any public comments on whether his preference of being traded was still what he wanted as the season plays out.
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On Tuesday, that changed, as Meyers definitively told reporters that he does indeed still want to be moved by the team.
"Oh, for sure," said Meyers when asked directly whether he still wanted to be moved. "But I'm still a professional at the end of the day. I'm just trying to play good football. At the end of the day, if I am here, I will play good football. If I'm not here, I'll go out there and play wherever I'm supposed to be."
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It's hard to blame Meyers' stance on the matter, as he has made it quite clear since the start of the season that he wants to find a more permanent home moving forward after contract negotiations went sideways.
When you add in just how poorly the Raiders have played thus far, Meyers has every right to want to be moved from an organization that has been unwilling to commit to him.
As for where the former 1,000-yard receiver could land in the trade market, the Buffalo Bills and the New England Patriots, among others, are teams that have been rumored to potentially make sense in a trade for Meyers.
Given these comments from Meyers, trade talks involving him will likely only continue to heat up as we approach next month's deadline. So it will be interesting to see whether the Raiders do ultimately give Meyers what he wants by moving him elsewhere sometime in the next two weeks.
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