Maxx Crosby has 15 quarterback hits through six games, but the sack total still sits at two, and that split is keeping his name in trade talk as the Raiders head toward the deadline. The numbers have been strong enough to put him T-3rd in the NFL in quarterback hits, yet not clean enough to quiet the speculation.
The reason the search around Crosby is so hot now is simple: the trade deadline is Tuesday, Nov. 10, at 3 p.m. CT, and the Raiders have spent the past three weeks sliding from a 3-0 start into three straight losses. They fell 30-27 to Kansas City, 45-17 at New England and 33-30 to Buffalo, and the defense gave up 30 or more points in all three games.
Crosby’s pressure numbers are still real. He has 15 quarterback hits, trailing only Greg Rousseau, who has 19, and Zach Allen, who has 16. Will Anderson Jr. is tied with Crosby at 15. But the sacks have not followed at the same pace, and that is the part that keeps being weighed against him. He had 1.5 sacks in the opener and a half-sack against Kansas City, then none since. His hits have come in bursts: three against Miami, one against the Chargers, two against New Orleans, five against Kansas City, two at New England and two against Buffalo.
The contrast matters because it is reshaping how his season is being read. Las Vegas has 43 quarterback hits as a team, sixth in the league, and 15 sacks, which ranks 13th. Crosby is doing his share of the pressure work, but the pass rush is producing hits more often than finishes, and that leaves the Raiders open to the kind of trade debate that flares when production and results do not line up.
That debate has already been loud. After the New England loss, Pete Prisco said Las Vegas should consider trading Crosby again and added, “Shouldn’t you consider trading [Maxx] Crosby again? Because I would. Because I don’t think he’s part of the future.” He floated Jacksonville as a possible buyer. After the Kansas City loss, Jason La Canfora wrote that a rival dangling two first-round picks might catch Las Vegas’ attention, but he also quoted a general manager saying, “I don’t think the price comes down,” and wrote, “Ultimately, I expect him to stay put.”
The market around Crosby also has a recent history that is impossible to ignore. In March, the Raiders agreed to send him to Baltimore for two first-round picks, but the Ravens backed out after his medical evaluation following a winter meniscus repair, and the deal was never made official. That kind of package is the benchmark now, and it helps explain why any conversation about moving him before the deadline is so steep. For comparison, Denver sent Von Miller to the Rams at the deadline for 2022 second- and third-round picks and paid $9 million of the $9.7 million left on his salary. Miller was 32 and in the final year of his deal. In March, New England sent Chandler Jones to Arizona for Jonathan Cooper and a second-round pick.
Crosby’s own production also shows how unusual this stretch is. He had 5.0 sacks through six weeks in 2021 and finished that season with 8.0 sacks. Over 2023-25, he posted 32.0 sacks and 71 quarterback hits. That is why the current line looks so striking: the pressure is there, the sacks are not, and the deadline is close enough that every hit starts to carry extra weight. Unless the Raiders get a deal they cannot ignore, the most likely answer is that Crosby stays put and the talk around him rolls into the deadline itself.
