For weeks, the Los Angeles Chargers have been adamant that they still believe in this current core of players despite the team's disastrous 0-8 start to the season. However, they finally reversed course on that sentiment on Tuesday with a trade shortly before the NFL trade deadline that afternoon.
“Trade: Chargers are sending LB Daiyan Henley to the Denver Broncos for a 2027 fourth-round pick and 2028 fifth-round pick, per sources,” reported NFL insider Adam Schefter of ESPN on X, formerly Twitter.
While it's not the Khalil Mack trade that some fans of rival teams were envisioning for their squads, it does send one of the Chargers' better defensive players to a divisional rival in Denver that is hoping to make another deep playoff run after losing in the AFC Championship Game to the New England Patriots a year ago.
Meanwhile, virtually everything that could have gone wrong has gone wrong for the Chargers so far this year, as the team is the only NFL squad remaining without a win this season, having lost every game of the schedule stretch of death that they have embarked on over the last six weeks after dropping their first two games at home to lesser opponents.
The Chargers still have time to explore other moves prior to the deadline, but it doesn't appear likely that they will look to make any drastic decisions, despite their lack of success.
In any case, the Chargers will next hit the field on Sunday for a road game against the Baltimore Ravens.