Jeffery Simmons, Quenton Nelson and DeForest Buckner have already been traded. More players will be on the move soon.
With the NFL trade deadline approaching on Nov. 10, several teams still have to determine whether they will be buyers or sellers. The Titans and Colts already made their intentions clear. And, they may not be done yet.
Tennessee got first-round picks in 2027 and in 2028 along with a 2027 fourth from Chicago for All-Pro defensive tackle Simmons and a 2028 fifth-round pick. Running back Tony Pollard, safety Amani Hooker and edge rusher Jermain Johnson could be next to go.
Indianapolis acquired a 2027 third-round pick and a 2028 fifth-round pick from San Francisco for eight-time Pro Bowl guard Nelson. The Colts sent Buckner to San Francisco for a 2027 fourth. Jonathan Taylor could land them a haul. Wide receiver Josh Downs will bring interest.
Here’s a look at where some teams stand and players who might be available:
The underachieving Chargers (0-6) are the NFL’s only winless team. They need to be sellers, looking to add draft picks. Veteran edge rusher Khalil Mack is still productive, though only a situational player at this point of his career. Veteran cornerback Donte Jackson has value. Wide receiver Quentin Johnston is young enough to be part of a rebuild if the Chargers keep him. Trading franchise quarterback Justin Herbert would be a massive and highly unlikely blockbuster. He has a full no-trade clause and would generate dead cap hits of $31.6 million this year and $50.4 million in 2027. That won't stop folks from speculating.
The Dolphins (1-5) are heading nowhere and need to add young talent. Defensive tackle Zach Sieler, right tackle Austin Jackson and edge Josh Uche can help them add some picks. Linebacker Jordyn Brooks is coming off an All-Pro season and could be a core player for the future if he stays.
The Cardinals (2-5) have edge rusher Josh Sweat and safety Budda Baker to place on the open market. Both players are talented and would get a nice haul. Arizona already traded wideout Marvin Harrison Jr. to the Texans. There’s a possibility QB Jacoby Brissett could be available, opening a path for rookie Carson Beck to play. Backup QB Gardner Minshew is expendable.
After making blockbuster trades last year, sending Sauce Gardner to Indianapolis and Quennen Williams to Dallas, the Jets (2-5) have three first-round picks in 2027. They seem to be in constant rebuild mode so more picks are always beneficial. Wideout Garrett Wilson and running back Breece Hall would land the best return. Teams will be interested in pass rusher Will McDonald, a former first-round pick. Could the Jets pry Herbert from the Chargers for a package that includes those first-round picks? Doubtful.
After going to the NFC championship game following the 2024 season, the Commanders (1-4-1) have gone backward. They could deal defensive tackle Daron Payne, wideout Stefon Diggs, edge rushers K’Lavon Chaisson and Dorance Armstrong Jr. Washington could be one of those teams that sells and buys, looking to add young talent with upside. A receiver like Jacksonville’s Brian Thomas Jr. fits that caetgory.
Despite a 2-5 record, the Buccaneers are still in the race in a wide-open and weak NFC South where every team has a losing record. A win over Atlanta (3-4) on Sunday puts Tampa Bay just a half-game behind Carolina (3-4) for first place. A loss won’t knock them out but the Bucs face Chicago on the road next week. If they fall to 2-7, general manager Jason Licht could stock up on draft picks. Veteran receiver Chris Godwin Jr., edge rusher Yaya Diaby, defensive tackle A’Shawn Robinson, running back Kenneth Gainwell and safety Antoine Winfield Jr. are among the players who could be available. Defensive tackle Vita Vea has value but carries a 2027 dead cap hit of $19.7 million if he’s traded.
They’re in a similar position to the Buccaneers. The Eagles (2-5) are in a winnable division despite five straight losses. They’ve been decimated by injuries and won’t have quarterback Jalen Hurts the rest of the season. If they find a way to beat the Commanders and Giants (4-2-1) in the next two games, Philadelphia would be right back in the race for the NFC East. Otherwise, GM Howie Roseman could start unloading talent. He already sent Pro Bowl center Cam Jurgens to Baltimore a few weeks ago. Roseman has more of a sell/buy philosphy so he'll be looking to add also.
When he’s healthy, Saquon Barkley is still productive and could be the missing piece for several contending teams like the Seahawks, Vikings, Packers and Bengals. He’s under contract through the 2028 season with just $2.5 million guaranteed next year so that’s an attractive for potential suitors. Linebacker Zach Baun, cornerback Riq Woolen, guard Landon Dickerson and tight end Dallas Goedert also could be moved for the right price.
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FILE - Indianapolis Colts offensive lineman Quenton Nelson looks on before an NFL football game against the Seattle Seahawks, Sunday, Dec. 14, 2025, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Stephen Brashear, File)
FILE - Tennessee Titans defensive tackle Jeffery Simmons (98) celebrates a sack during an NFL football game against the Indianapolis Colts in Indianapolis, Sunday, Oct. 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Zach Bolinger, File)
President Donald Trump will hold rallies in Iowa and Kansas after initially opting for telerallies instead. Democrats had questioned his crowd sizes and stamina.
Early voting is significantly outpacing the last midterm election, with particularly sharp increases in states hosting competitive Senate races, according to an Associated Press analysis of voting data from five days before Election Day.
The Justice Department has subpoenaed California elections workers to appear before grand juries, prompting voting groups to ask for restraining orders. And with the GOP talking up the ballot-stacking controversy in the Alaska Senate race, Democrat Mary Peltola says Republicans are bullying because they can’t run on their record.
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The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday rejected the Justice Department’s request for California to set aside disputed ballots received in the midterm election.
The panel’s 2-1 ruling is the latest setback for the Trump administration’s efforts to assert control over state-run elections.
The administration has alleged California sent ballots to some 20,000 people who may not be U.S. citizens. It wants the state to set those ballots aside and not count them until citizenship can be verified. California disputes the accuracy of the list.
A district court judge already forcefully denied that request and warned that the Justice Department’s demands could disenfranchise citizens.
“As the district court found — and we discern no clear error __there is no feasible way to identify and segregate the ballots of specific individuals without potentially catastrophic effects on the entire system,” the appeals court wrote
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The New Jersey governor said if Democrats win House control, they must “leverage it to fight for people” and check Trump’s power, even if they can’t enact laws.
“There’s no just making some appropriations deal because we’re appropriators and we’re bipartisan,” Sherrill told AP.
House Democrats have promised votes reinstating Affordable Care Act tax breaks, reversing Medicaid cuts, holding votes against the Iran war and undoing Trump’s tariffs.
Rather than one package like Republicans’ 2025 law, Sherrill argued for splitting issues individually and framing the argument each time. By showing voters what a Democratic-led government would do, she said, “you galvanize people around it so that when we take the presidency in ’28, it’s all teed up.”
Asked specifically whether she would cut off Pentagon funding as a way to curb Trump on Iran, she said, “Every drop of power you have, you use to leverage for the people.”
Having served in the House majority and minority before being elected governor last year, Sherrill is warning her fellow Democrats against factionalism and timidity if they win partial or complete control of Congress.
“You need to chart out how you’re going to create opportunity, how you’re going to drive costs down … and how you’re going to hold Trump accountable,” she told The Associated Press while campaigning for Democrats in Georgia. “So, it’s both-and. It’s not either-or.”
Democrats’ philosophical fights must be contained, she said, adding that a winning party necessarily has “a big tent” and must figure out how to use it.
“Are you progressive? Are you moderate? Are you this? Are you that?” she mused. “If that’s the fight, then everybody loses. And so, the caucus has got to come together and fight for working people, and that is something that not one Democrat should shy away from.”
A sell-off for tech stocks is getting worse Friday on worries that Wall Street’s frenzy around AI sent prices too high.
The S&P 500 dropped 1.6% and was on track to erase its gain for October, even though it set its all-time high during the month. The weakness for technology stocks dragged the Nasdaq composite down 2.6% toward its worst day since June, as of 12:30 p.m. Eastern time, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 359 points, or 0.7%.
Intel’s stock led the way downward and is flirting with its worst day since 1974 after tumbling 29.7%. The chipmaker gave a forecast for profit in the final three months of this year that fell short of analysts’ expectations, as CEO Lip-Bu Tan said the personal-computer industry continues to feel pressure. The drop came even though Intel a stronger profit for the latest quarter than analysts expected.
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Brandon Herrera, a Trump-endorsed Republican running for Congress along the southern Texas border, is emphasizing his opposition to one of the president’s border projects.
In a new ad, which was airing Friday in the San Antonio area, according to AdImpact, Herrera stands in Texas’ Big Bend region, where the Trump administration has been pushing for a multibillion-dollar border wall project but has faced pushback from landowners.
“When Big Bend faced unnecessary construction that didn’t make the border any more secure, I brought the fight directly to the Department of Homeland Security in Washington, D.C., and pressured them to stop the project,” Herrera says. The ad doesn’t mention Trump by name.
The ad in a state that will help determine the makeup of the next Congress is the latest example of Republicans distancing themselves from the president or his policies in midterm races this year.
Trump is facing the prospect of a voter rebellion that could force conservatives to rethink their undying allegiance to the 80-year-old lame-duck leader and his “Make America Great Again” movement. Already, some Republican candidates have begun to distance themselves from him.
And Democrats, who remain unpopular despite midterm momentum, are speeding toward a tug-of-war between establishment leaders and emboldened progressives demanding nothing less than transformative change.
Whether either party wins or loses Tuesday, the end of the 2026 midterms marks the beginning of a high-stakes fight over the country’s political future in the twilight of the Trump era — a fight that will swiftly surge to the forefront of American politics as new members of Congress descend upon Washington and the 2028 presidential contest takes off.
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The Democratic Governors Association said Friday that it and related groups have spent $15 million on races in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Ohio and Wisconsin.
The party has also spent $10 million in Iowa and seven figures in both Texas and Florida. It has put $500,000 each into races in Nebraska and Oklahoma.
Democrats are hoping to regain a majority of the nation’s governorships for the first time since 2010. But they have faced tough choices, including how much to invest in expensive and traditionally Republican states like Florida and Texas, where the Democratic candidates have insisted they have a path to victory.
“The DGA is incredibly excited about the size and ambition of the playing field that has settled in these final days,” DGA executive director Meghan Meehan-Draper wrote in a memo. “However, we remain clear-eyed about the challenge of overcoming unprecedented Republican spending.”
Trump says Georgia GOP Senate candidate Mike Collins can call him whenever he wants to ask for help for his state. But if Georgia reelects Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff, Trump says it could be another story.
“There’s a big difference between that and Pee-wee Herman calling,” Trump said last week in Perry, Georgia, using his derisive nickname for Ossoff. The president acted out a hypothetical scenario at his rally where Ossoff calls to ask for money for his state, and Trump responds, “I don’t give a damn what he wants.”
It’s been a recurring theme at Trump’s rallies this month: From North Carolina to Ohio to Kansas, the president has dangled the idea that his administration would be far less likely to help states where Democrats win.
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A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer accused of intentionally ramming his car into a Mexican construction worker was charged Friday by the prosecutor’s office in Houston with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
The Harris County District Attorney’s office says ICE officer Mario Alberto Morales’s unmarked vehicle struck Miguel Parra Hernandez as he was running away. The man was taken into custody with a broken leg.
Few federal officers during Trump’s immigration crackdown have faced criminal charges for their actions in the field, although some encounters have come under investigation.
District Attorney Sean Teare, a Democrat, also is investigating the fatal shooting of a Mexican homebuilder that set off protests in the city.
ICE did not immediately respond to the indictment, but an earlier agency statement called the accusations false and reckless.
Teare has said the surveillance footage clearly contradicts the ICE account.
ExxonMobil reported quarterly revenues up 33% to $113 billion on Friday. Chevron’s revenue surged 36% to $67.8 billion.
Besides the disruption caused by the wars in Iran and Ukraine that have driven up the fuel costs, both companies have increased oil extraction, and Exxon reported that its U.S. Gulf Coast diesel production was the second-highest on record.
Despite Trump ’s efforts to tamp down soaring energy costs as Americans vote, diesel is about $6.32 per gallon, up 71% since last year, according to AAA. Diesel surpassed $6 last month — a record. Regular gasoline is up about 38%. Some states have stopped collecting gas taxes to ease costs.
The surge is especially pronounced in Texas, where voters are deciding closely watched Senate, House and governor’s races. More than 6.3 million Texans voted early as of Wednesday, compared with 4.2 million at the same point four years ago, a 50% increase, according to the AP analysis.
In Harris County, Texas, which includes Houston, 862,700 people had voted, compared with 564,500 at the same point in 2022.
Texans are choosing between Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton and Democrat James Talarico for the U.S. Senate. Republican Gov. Greg Abbott is seeking reelection against Democrat Gina Hinojosa.
Advance voting has increased more than 30% in Maine, Michigan, North Carolina and Kansas, states with competitive Senate races. In South Carolina, where voters are choosing a successor to the late Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, early voting is up 83%.
Rep. Haley Stevens is calling on Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed to apologize for his past comments about Israel ahead of the former primary rivals’ joint appearance at a Sunday get-out-the-vote event.
Stevens posted Friday morning that she welcomes El-Sayed’s expected condemnation of an advertisement by Rebellion PAC, an independent left-wing group, that links high grocery prices to U.S. support for Israel. Some Jewish leaders criticized the ad, and Stevens said Democratic Party leaders told her El-Sayed would denounce it.
Stevens’s statement then said the ad echoes comments El-Sayed himself has made, and “I therefore expect him to apologize for those statements as well.”
El-Sayed has not publicly condemned the ad, though his campaign has said it is not affiliated with the group. He has apologized for earlier comments about a synagogue attack but remains sharply critical of Israel’s government. His campaign declined to comment Friday.
The vice president is heading to upstate New York on the eve of Election Day to campaign for a Republican in a district that just a few months ago was considered safe for the GOP.
Vance will host a get-out-the-vote rally alongside Republican congressional candidate Anthony Constantino on Monday in Rome, New York, Constantino’s campaign confirms.
The visit comes as Trump and Republican leaders increasingly seek to buttress candidates in red districts ahead of next week’s midterm elections. Constantino, a Trump ally, is running against Democratic dairy farmer Blake Gendebien to succeed outgoing Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik, who has represented the seat since 2015.
In 2024, Trump won the rural district by about 21 percentage points and Stefanik defeated her challenger by about 24 points.
At the White House on Thursday evening, the president paused from passing out candy at an annual Halloween event to watch a low flyover of the Qatari-gifted jumbo jet he often uses as Air Force One. It passed once at about 5:30 p.m. and circled back for a second flyover, passing directly over the White House.
Trump looked up and waved as it soared by.
Elsewhere in Washington, some said it was frightening to see what seemed like a passenger jet flying so low over buildings and homes. In a post on social media, Washington’s city council said the flyover came with little notice and startled many downtown.
Trump has rescheduled campaign rallies in a pair of critical Midwestern states that he had previously canceled, according to a person familiar with the plans.
The person said Friday the Republican president will now visit Iowa and Kansas for back-to-back campaign rallies on Sunday. The person insisted on anonymity to discuss Trump’s schedule.
The Republican National Committee initially said in canceling the rallies that Trump would do telerallies instead to reach more voters. But the person familiar with the latest plans say the Iowa and Kansas rallies have been rearranged to accommodate the new telerallies added to Trump’s schedule.
Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic Senate candidate in Michigan who’s in a tight race against Republican Mike Rogers, said Thursday night that the president’s goal of trying to gin up GOP voters has backfired and he has “given up.”
“He’s an old man, he’s a loser,” El-Sayed continued. “He now understands that he has fully lost the midterms for his party.”
A campaign strategist with Republican Senate leadership said there was widespread curiosity about why Trump’s schedule was changing to telerallies. The strategist spoke on condition of anonymity to share the content of private conversations.
Trump, who revels in big crowds, has this month held rallies in smaller venues than many he once filled. The decision to switch to telerallies means he will be expected to speak for about 10 minutes instead of more than 90, as he does at in-person events.
Trump plans to travel to Daytona Beach, Florida, for a rally Friday. It’s not clear whether he will hold additional in-person events after that. The White House has not published his schedule for Monday, the final day of the campaign.
Trump’s switch to telerallies is an abrupt shift from his pledge to lead in-person rallies to galvanize supporters. As of Thursday, he had done 25 rallies this month, short of a goal he once placed north of 30.
On Monday, in Corinth, Mississippi, Trump — whose voice has grown raspy — told the crowd, “God didn’t make your vocal cords to do a rally every day.”
But he bristled Thursday when a reporter asked whether he had canceled a Kansas rally because of his health. “You’ve been following me for two weeks. I feel perfect,” Trump snapped.
The president projected confidence as he returned to the White House from South Carolina, saying, “We’re going to have a strong Tuesday night.”
Two legal filings overnight reveal how Trump critics are fighting back as the Justice Department deepens its scrutiny of local election administration.
A group including the League of Women Voters that’s challenging the administration’s collection and analysis of state voter data asked for temporary restraining order.
Another coalition that includes California workers filed a new lawsuit alleging that federal threats to election workers “significantly risk interfering with the lawful administration of the ongoing 2026 midterm elections and the counting of ballots in accordance with federal and state law.”
Both filings asked federal judges to stop the Justice Department from demanding that election workers remove voters or segregate ballots, and from threatening election workers with prosecution for counting ballots that the Trump administration alleges were sent to noncitizens.
The data compiled by The Associated Press offers a glimpse of early voter participation five days before an election that will determine control of Congress and other key contests across the country.
Across the country, more than 43 million Americans had voted early in person or returned mail ballots, nearly 10 million more than in 2022. The figures cover 47 states and Washington, D.C., compared with 48 states and the nation’s capital four years ago.
In states that provide information on voters’ party affiliation, about 6.8 million Democrats and 5.2 million Republicans have cast ballots early. Those figures do not account for all early voters nationwide or indicate which candidates received their votes.
Early voting is continuing to significantly outpace the last midterm election, with millions more Americans casting ballots in advance and particularly sharp increases in states hosting competitive Senate races.
An Associated Press analysis of voting data five days before Election Day shows the surge is especially pronounced in Texas, where voters are deciding closely watched Senate, House and governor’s races. More than 6.3 million Texans had voted early as of Wednesday, compared with 4.2 million at the same point four years ago, a 50% increase.
Advance voting has also increased over 30% from the same point four years ago in Maine, Michigan, North Carolina and Kansas, all states with competitive Senate races. In South Carolina, where voters are choosing a successor to the late Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, early voting is up 83%.
The Vatican confirmed Friday that the Chicago-born pontiff submitted a mail-in ballot in Chicago ahead of November’s midterm elections, citing his long-standing belief in civic participation.
Leo, formerly Robert Prevost, “has exercised his right to vote as a United States citizen” and has done so “whenever he was eligible to do so,” the Holy See press office said. “The Holy Father expresses his belief in the right and the duty of citizens to participate in democratic processes.”
The statement said he had also voted while living in Peru whenever he was eligible.
Speaking to Fox News Channel from Michigan, Sen. Tim Scott said Attorney General Todd Blanche was “acting expeditiously” to probe allegations that Democrat Mary Peltola’s campaign appeared to be involved in recruiting another candidate on the Alaska ballot with the same name as the Republican incumbent.
Scott, who chairs Senate Republicans’ campaign arm, said Peltola must be “absolutely concerned about her inability to win the election without lying, cheating, therefore stealing the results of this election.”
Peltola on Thursday denied she knew anything about the efforts, first reported by the New York Times.
Scott wasn’t asked about GOP efforts to stack ballots with candidates who could siphon votes, a long and unseemly tradition across the political spectrum in American politics.
Florida Republican congressman and gubernatorial candidate Byron Donalds gestures during a campaign event, Thursday, Oct. 29, 2026, in Hialeah, Fla. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
In this photo made with a smartphone, Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Mary Peltola, center, stands with supporters during a campaign event in Anchorage, Alaska, on Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Haven Daley)
White House deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller and his wife Katie arrive before President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump greet families and hand out candy during a Halloween event on the South Lawn of the White House, Thursday, Oct. 29, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump attend a Halloween event on the South Lawn of the White House, Thursday, Oct. 29, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
