There’s no real smoke around a Maxx Crosby trade right now, and Adam Schefter says the picture is pretty clear: nothing is brewing, nothing is active, and the Raiders aren’t shopping their star pass rusher.
According to Schefter, Crosby is not asking out, Las Vegas does not plan to move him, and the team has not had trade talks with another club. The sense around the situation, he said, is that Crosby has stayed committed to the Raiders even after this offseason’s blockbuster deal to the Ravens collapsed.
“Maxx absolutely does not want to leave Las Vegas under any circumstances,” one source told Schefter. “His hope, though not in his full control, is that he remains a Raider for life.”
That kind of stance matters, because the asking price in any hypothetical deal would be massive. There’s been talk in NFL circles that it would take two first-round picks to even get the Raiders to consider moving Crosby again.
Crosby also reportedly played a role in shutting down a trade to the Rams, the strongest bidder after the Baltimore deal went through, because he wanted to stay in Las Vegas.
The 29-year-old edge rusher has been a Raider since the team took him in the fourth round in 2019 out of Eastern Michigan University. He was in the final year of his four-year, $3,302,264 rookie contract, which included a $782,264 signing bonus and carried a base salary of $850,000, before signing a four-year, $98.98 million extension with more than $53 million guaranteed.
He later landed a three-year, $106.5 million extension in March 2025, with base salaries of $22.236 million and $18.84 million in the final two seasons.
The Ravens had agreed to acquire Crosby in a blockbuster picks package, but Baltimore backed out after concerns about his physical.
On the field in 2026, Crosby has played in seven games and put up 18 total tackles, three tackles for loss, two sacks, a pass defended, a forced fumble and a fumble recovery.
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