2023 NFL trade deadline: Who are the biggest winners and losers?

Here is what it feels like to be inside an NFL franchise as the trade deadline approaches. Dallas Cowboys owner and general manager Jerry Jones said he has people walk into his office to tell him how much more they like it when the Cowboys are making deals.

"It's fun to do deals, it's fun to do deals in life," Jones told me earlier this week. "It's a buzz. But have you ever had to pay for all the ones that didn't work out right?"

Worth remembering when noting that the Cowboys did not make a trade prior to Tuesday's deadline.

Not long ago, the deadline was a snoozer, with few teams making deals and even fewer headline names on the move. In 2015, exactly one player was traded within a week of the deadline. But for a variety of reasons -- a wave of younger, more aggressive general managers is a big one -- the days leading up to the deadline are now a hive of activity. Last season, 18 players were traded within a week of the deadline, 13 of them on deadline day itself. This season, 10 players were traded within the week, either of them within 24 hours of the deadline. Yes, judgment on the success or failure of transactions should be suspended until we have a decent sample size and we can see which teams make the postseason. But who has that kind of patience? Here's our snap decisions on who won and who lost at the trade deadline.

San Francisco 49ers: Under the "rich get richer" heading, we have the 49ers, who gave up only a third-round draft pick to get defensive end Chase Young from the Washington Commanders. Young will now line up opposite Nick Bosa, which is a significant boost for a team whose defense has flagged in the last two weeks, has lost its last three games and has dropped out of the NFC West lead. You knew that the