NFL Trade Deadline: Jerry Jones Says 'I Don't Look for Us to Make a Significant Trade Today'
The deadline is 3 p.m. Central today, and the Cowboys' owner used his Tuesday radio slot to close the door his front office left ajar on Monday — no significant trade is expected in Dallas, and the one name linked to the Cowboys is a player his own coach says is staying put.
FRISCO — Deadline day in Dallas opened with the owner saying the quiet part on the radio. "I don't look for us to make a significant trade today," Jerry Jones said on his weekly appearance on 105.3 The Fan in Dallas on Tuesday morning, according to USA TODAY's live trade-deadline file, read in full by this desk. The NFL trade deadline is today, Tuesday, November 10, at 4 p.m. Eastern — 3 p.m. Central — and Jones's line matches the one his front office has sent for weeks: the Cowboys do not expect to be active.
Monday's version of that message came from executive vice president Stephen Jones, who said the team had not fielded many inquiries and that it was "pretty quiet on our end" — a position this station filed on Monday. The name that kept attaching itself to Dallas anyway was Jets edge rusher Will McDonald IV, who requested a trade on Monday, according to NFL Network reporting carried in Cowboys Wire's deadline tracker, read this run. McDonald, a 2023 first-round pick, has three sacks this season while playing roughly half of New York's defensive snaps, after 18 and a half sacks across the 2024 and 2025 seasons, USA TODAY reported.
The obstacle is on the record in New York. Jets head coach Aaron Glenn said on Monday that the Jets plan to stand pat at the deadline: "I just know we're in the business of keeping good players, so Will is going to be here," Glenn said, according to USA TODAY's file. Dallas, 4-5, hosts the 7-1 San Francisco 49ers on Sunday, and on the evidence of both owners' boxes this morning, it will do so with the roster it has. If a deal does land before 3 p.m., this desk will file it when it is reported — until then, the deadline-day story in Dallas is the absence of one.
