Chargers predicted to land former No. 2 overall pick before trade deadline | Sporting News

Travis Wakeman

The NFL trade deadline is fast approaching and teams are preparing their final offers to add players before time is out on November 5.

The Los Angeles Chargers could be a team in the market for another wide receiver, but in his latest round of predictions, Vinnie Iyer of The Sporting News has the team snagging a different player at a completely different position. In his predictions, the Chargers make a deal with the team they just beat, the New Orleans Saints, to acquire edge rusher Chase Young.

While Young has never totally lived up to his status as the No. 2 overall pick in the 2020 NFL Draft, he hasn't been bad, either. He was the Defensive Rookie of the Year in 2020 and has 18.5 career sacks. He could bring great depth to any team in the pass-rushing department.

However, it would be a curious move. Joey Bosa has been hurt far too often, but the Chargers still have Tuli Tuipolotu and Bud Dupree on the roster. Bringing in Young, so long as it was cheap, would be a sensible move, but it would ignore the position where the team needs the most help: wide receiver.

Young's name has been mentioned frequently when discussing potential trade targets lately, so he could definitely be on the move from New Orleans after signing a one-year deal with the Saints this offseason.

Young played with the other Bosa, Nick, while with the San Francisco 49ers last season after the Washington Commanders traded him ahead of last year's deadline. He registered 2.5 sacks with the Niners and played in the Super Bowl, but he didn't do enough to get a new deal there.

Jim Harbaugh and Jesse Minter could likely get the most out of Young, who is still only 25 years old.

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Travis Wakeman has been covering the NFL since 2012 when he started with Bleacher Report. After reporting about the Broncos there until 2016, he joined the FanSided network as a site expert covering the San Diego/Los Angeles Chargers while simultaneously covering the Broncos at Broncos Wire when that site launched. He then took over the Broncos site at FanSided in March 2020 and covered the team there until spring of 2024. A lifelong Broncos fan and fan of the game, Travis is filled with sometimes useless NFL knowledge, but it always serves him well in any trivia contest. You can follow him on Twitter/X @traviswakeman10.