The Denver Broncos are trading extracurricular linebacker Bradley Chubb to the Miami Dolphins for a bundle that includes the 2023 first-round prime that Miami acquired from the San Francisco 49ers past year, sources told ESPN's Adam Schefter.
The Dolphins are besides sending moving backmost Chase Edmonds and a 2024 fourth-round prime to Denver for a 2025 fifth-round enactment on with Chubb, a root told Schefter.
Miami past replaced Edmonds by acquiring moving backmost Jeff Wilson for a 2023 fifth-round prime from the San Francisco 49ers successful a abstracted deal, a root told Schefter.
The Dolphins person pressured opposing quarterbacks connected 22% of their dropbacks this season, the fourth-lowest complaint successful the NFL, according to ESPN Stats & Information research. Miami has 15 sacks successful 8 games this season
Chubb has 5.5 sacks this season, tied for the squad lead, and 26 successful his vocation successful 49 games with the Broncos.
Chubb is scheduled to go an unrestricted escaped cause aft this season. The Dolphins are expected to enactment retired a caller semipermanent woody with Chubb, sources told Schefter.
With the commercialized the Dolphins volition not person a first-round draught prime adjacent twelvemonth aft forfeiting their ain enactment arsenic punishment for tampering with Tom Brady and Sean Payton earlier this season.
The Dolphins signed Edmonds successful escaped bureau this year. He has rushed for 120 yards and has scored 3 touchdowns (two rushing, 1 receiving) successful his archetypal play successful Miami. He volition articulation a Broncos backfield that includes Melvin Gordon III and Latavius Murray aft starter Javonte Williams suffered a season-ending genu wounded earlier this season.
The Broncos weren't going to commercialized Chubb unless they got the instrumentality large capable to vessel their 2018 first-round pick, who is having his champion all-around play with the team, elsewhere. Chubb said past week helium hoped to enactment successful Denver, but knew it was retired of his hands.
"... It's bully to person that travel up ... it's conscionable chill to beryllium successful a presumption wherever the involvement comes in,'' Chubb said this past week successful London. "At the extremity of the time I conscionable fto each that worldly beryllium handled by the radical who grip it. I conscionable spell retired present and bash what I can.''
It is the 2nd consecutive play Broncos wide manager George Paton has dealt the team's champion walk rusher conscionable earlier the deadline. Last year, helium dealt Von Miller to the Los Angeles Rams.
Paton has said this past week the Broncos were "not successful the mode wherever we privation to get escaped of our champion players,'' but helium has besides said helium would similar to retrieve draught picks successful the rounds wherever the Broncos nary longer had picks aft the woody to get Russell Wilson.
This woody gives the Broncos a first-round prime again adjacent April.
Chubb is connected way for his archetypal double-digit sack play since helium had 12 his rookie year. He missed each but 4 games successful 2019 with a torn ACL and missed 10 games past play owed to bony spurs successful some ankles.
ESPN's Jeff Legwold contributed to this report.
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