Week 8 Trade Board: Jeffery Simmons and the Prices That Move With Him

Thursday's agreement is the Week 8 price change

The Titans agreed Thursday, October 29, to trade All-Pro defensive tackle Jeffery Simmons to the Chicago Bears. The Titans' announcement posts the compensation and says the deal is pending a physical. Tennessee receives a 2027 first-round pick, a 2028 first-round pick, and a 2027 fourth-round pick. Chicago receives Simmons and a 2028 fifth-round pick.

ESPN, citing Adam Schefter and NFL Network's Ian Rapoport, has the same package, with the Titans at 1-6 and the Bears at 5-2. NFL.com and NBC Sports match those terms. The Associated Press also reported that the Bears are acquiring Simmons. ESPN Research says he is the first defensive tackle in the common draft era, since 1967, traded for multiple first-round picks.

That is a football price. The fantasy price depends on the league. Most redraft leagues do not start a defensive tackle. IDP leagues do. Dynasty leagues that roster NFL draft picks have to retag the picks that just changed teams. Dynasty leagues that only roster their own rookie picks do not suddenly own the Bears' 2027 first. The sections below keep those formats apart.

Simmons is 29. NBC Sports lists him as the 19th overall pick in 2019, a four-time Pro Bowler, and a first-team All-Pro for the first time in 2025, when he posted a career-high 11.0 sacks, 17 tackles for loss, and 21 quarterback hits. The Titans say he was named to four Pro Bowls. ESPN has the career line at 46.5 sacks, 72 tackles for loss, and 96 quarterback hits over eight seasons, and it reports the offseason extension as three years and $105.8 million, including $100 million guaranteed, running through the 2030 season. NFL.com dates that extension to June.

On Wednesday he told reporters he had not heard he was moving. The Titans published the line: "As far as I know, I am going to be here." Thursday morning the club posted the trade. An offer that was built on Wednesday's availability is already old.

The NFL Week 8 schedule sends the Titans to Cincinnati on Sunday, November 1, at 1:00 p.m. ET on CBS, and sends the Bears to Seattle on Monday, November 2, at 8:15 p.m. ET on ESPN. NFL.com's bye list puts Houston, New Orleans, the Giants, and San Francisco off in Week 8. Tennessee's bye is Week 9. Chicago's bye is Week 10. Simmons is not idle this week because of a Titans bye. He is changing teams, and the physical the Titans described is still open. The same standard used for Quenton Nelson on the October 28 trade board applies here. An outstanding physical is a reason he might not play Monday. It is not a reason to treat the agreement as a rumor.

DeForest Buckner, Nelson, and the skill-player prices those Tuesday deals already set are on that October 28 board. CeeDee Lamb, Javonte Williams, and Saquon Barkley are on the Monday night Cowboys-Eagles trade board. That Monday game is already in the books. This week's Monday game is the one in Seattle. Use the prices below when an offer moved because Simmons changed teams. The NFL trade deadline is 4:00 p.m. New York time on November 10. Your league's deadline is a different date. Confirm it with the fantasy trade-deadline guide.

The production you are buying is the 2026 line, not the All-Pro year

The 2025 season is why the contract exists. It is not the number of sacks he has in 2026.

Through seven games, ESPN has four sacks, six tackles for loss, and four passes defended, and it says each of those figures leads the Titans. NBC Sports has the same sack and tackle-for-loss totals and lists nine quarterback hits. NFL.com, citing Next Gen Stats, has 28 pressures entering Week 8, the most among defensive tackles. That count includes 10 pressures and three sacks when he was double-teamed, which NFL.com also lists as the high marks at the position, plus 21 run stops, tied for second among defensive tackles.

ESPN puts his 2026 pass-rush win rate at 27 percent, the highest among defensive tackles. Chicago's interior defenders are at 13 percent, 23rd in the league, in the same ESPN Analytics and Next Gen Stats note. Over the last two seasons, Chicago's standard pass rush, four rushers or fewer, has produced pressure on 25 percent of those dropbacks. ESPN calls that the fourth-lowest rate in the span, after the 49ers at 22 percent, the Panthers at 23 percent, and the Raiders at 25 percent.

Those are the facts a format can use. Four sacks in seven games is a strong tackle season. It is also well short of an 11-sack year. Paying the All-Pro sack total as if it is the rest-of-2026 floor means paying for a season that is not the one on the current stat line. Paying nothing, in a league that scores sacks and quarterback hits, means ignoring the pressure lead NFL.com reported.

ESPN Research ranks him among defensive tackles since 2019 like this: 46.5 sacks, second; nine forced fumbles, tied for first; seven fumble recoveries, second; 31 pass breakups, second; 65.5 disrupted dropbacks, second; 414 tackles, third. A league that scores sacks, hits, and turnovers is buying the top of that list. A league that is mostly tackles is buying a tackle who is third at his position over that span, with the pass-rush line as the extra. A league that does not start individual defenders is buying none of it.

He played 86.6 percent of Tennessee's defensive snaps, per ESPN. Snap share is the piece that travels if he becomes a Bear every-down tackle. It has not traveled yet. Chicago has not posted a snap count, and the physical is still pending.

IDP, redraft, and team defense are three different prices

Redraft without IDP. He is not a roster spot. Leave him out of the offer. A manager who adds "and you get Simmons" to a skill-player deal is adding a name your lineup cannot start. Decline the sweetener as value. In a one-quarterback league and in superflex, the answer is the same, because the position that changed is still defensive tackle.

Redraft, IDP. Hold him if he is yours. Sit him in Week 8. Do not start him as a Titan in Cincinnati on Sunday, because the club has already agreed to send him to Chicago. Do not start him as a Bear on Monday until the physical is done and Chicago lists him. The first week to plan a start is Week 9, when the NFL schedule sends Tampa Bay to Chicago on Sunday, November 8, at 8:20 p.m. ET on NBC. That plan requires an active designation. Week 10 is Chicago's bye on the NFL bye list, so a price that assumes he plays the next two weeks is paying for a game that is not on the schedule.

Do not drop him to chase a tackle who plays Sunday. Do not send a skill starter to acquire him. Four sacks, six tackles for loss, and nine quarterback hits in seven games make him a weekly starter in a league that scores the position. They do not make him a flex you clear a running back to obtain. A fair IDP buy, if you do not already own him, is another tackle or a bench defender you were not starting. It is not your RB2.

Redraft, team defense. NBC Sports ranks Chicago eighth in yards allowed and ninth in points allowed. That is the defense the Bears already were. NFL.com says the front is also waiting on edge rusher Montez Sweat, back from a two-game suspension, and that veteran Grady Jarrett is already in the group. ESPN notes that Simmons and Sweat were teammates at Mississippi State. Sweat's return is a separate availability question. It is not a waiver add created by this trade, and it is not confirmation that either player plays Monday.

Monday's opponent is the reigning-champion Seahawks, on the road. If Chicago is your only defense, this trade is not a new reason to bench them, and it is not a new reason to expect a spike. The matchup was already Seattle. If you were deciding whether to stream them, leave them on the wire for Week 8. Week 9 at home against Tampa Bay is the first week to look again, after the physical and after a week of practice. Pay a normal stream price that week. Do not pay a starter to get ahead of a defense that still has to list him.

Dynasty, IDP. Hold. He is 29, and the contract ESPN describes runs through 2030. That is a multi-year tackle for a contender. DeForest Buckner is the comparison already on the October 28 board: 32 years old, final year of his deal, a 2026 hold, and not a player you buy with a rookie pick. Simmons is younger and signed longer. He is still a defensive tackle. Pay a tackle price. The two NFL first-round picks the Bears sent are the football cost in the next section. They are not the default fantasy cost. Two of your own rookie firsts is a price for a scarce IDP scoring system that already treats an interior rusher like a skill starter. If your league does not score that way, decline it.

Dynasty, no IDP. He is not a chip. Do not accept him as the extra piece in a deal for a starter you would actually play. Do not add a rookie pick to get him.

Chicago's skill players keep the prices they already had

Simmons lines up on defense. He does not catch passes from Caleb Williams.

A better interior rush can shorten drives and hand the offense more possessions once he is actually playing. That is a game-script tailwind for later weeks. It is not a Monday target chart. ESPN describes the fit as help for a front that has struggled to generate pressure since Dennis Allen became defensive coordinator in 2025. The win-rate gap in that report, 13 percent for Chicago's interior and 27 percent for Simmons, is the on-field case. It becomes a fantasy case for Williams only after Simmons has played a Bears snap.

Caleb Williams, redraft: hold. He plays Monday in Seattle. Do not send a running back for the Monday start because a tackle was agreed to on Thursday. In a one-quarterback league he is the quarterback you already had. In superflex he is the same hold. Dynasty: hold. ESPN notes that general manager Ryan Poles had not previously traded multiple first-round picks. The 2023 trade that sent the first overall pick to Carolina brought DJ Moore to Chicago and produced the selection used on Williams. Spending 2027 and 2028 firsts now is a statement about that window. It does not add a season to Williams' value, and it does not add a completion to Monday's sheet.

DJ Moore and Luther Burden, redraft: hold at the prices on the October 28 board. That board already treats Burden as a cheap buy tied to route share, and it treats Moore's shoulder as a Week 8 question. Simmons does not add a route. Buy Burden only if the offer is still the cheap one that board described. Take a Moore discount only on the shoulder terms that board already set, and only if your roster can wait. Dynasty: hold both unless the return was already fair without this trade. Moore's long-term role in Chicago was set by the 2023 deal ESPN recounted. A defensive tackle does not rewrite it.

Seattle's skill players are the other side of the same Monday game, and they are already priced on that October 28 board. Sam Darnold, Jaxon Smith-Njigba, Emanuel Wilson, and Zach Charbonnet do not get a haircut because a Bears tackle might debut. Nelson's move to Seattle is a separate line question. That board's conclusion still stands: a guard acquired Tuesday, with a physical still pending, is not a Monday head start. Stacking Simmons on top of Nelson, before either is confirmed to play, prices a game that has not assigned its lineups. Hold Darnold in superflex. Hold Smith-Njigba. His contract and dynasty price remain the ones in the Jaxon Smith-Njigba extension article. Hold Wilson and Charbonnet. Do not sell a Seattle starter because Chicago added a defensive tackle who has not taken a snap for them.

If you own Chicago's defense and Seattle's quarterback in the same redraft league, start the quarterback you were already starting and leave both prices where they were before Thursday.

Tennessee on Sunday is a thinner interior, not a Bengals buy

The Titans are 1-6. They play at Cincinnati on Sunday. They are not on a bye. NFL.com's Week 9 schedule lists Tennessee among the clubs off that week, which matches the bye list. A manager who benches a Titans skill player for a bye in Week 8 is using the wrong week.

ESPN says the Titans will turn to a rotation starting with Solomon Thomas and John Franklin-Myers. The club has not posted Sunday's snaps. Thomas was already on the roster. The Titans' March announcement says they acquired him from Dallas for a seventh-round pick swap, and it credits his 2025 Cowboys season with 16 games, two starts, 27 tackles, three tackles for loss, two quarterback hits, and one pass defensed. That is not Simmons' 2025 line of 11 sacks, and it is not a Week 8 IDP claim. Franklin-Myers is on the Titans' 2026 transaction log as a March signing. ESPN naming the two of them as the start of a rotation is a depth note. It is not a snap count.

Solomon Thomas and John Franklin-Myers, IDP: leave them on the wire. Do not spend waiver priority because a report named a rotation. Neither arrives with the pressure lead NFL.com listed for Simmons. In a non-IDP league they are not adds at all.

Tennessee team defense: leave it on the wire. The player who leads the club in sacks, tackles for loss, and passes defended, per ESPN's seven-game line, is the player in the trade. Sunday at Cincinnati is not a stream.

Cincinnati skill players: start the ones you were already starting. The interior they face will not include Simmons if the physical is completed and he is out of Tennessee's lineup. That is a softer interior than the one that played the first seven games. It is one Sunday. It is not a new season-long role, and it is not a reason to trade for a Bengals passer, back, or receiver this week. Leave the extra bump out of the offer.

Titans skill players: hold. Simmons leaving does not change the offense. Carnell Tate, the receiver the Titans drafted fourth overall in 2026 on that same transaction log, is already priced on the October 28 board. This trade does not move his targets. Do not sell a Titans pass catcher because the defense traded a tackle. Do not buy one because the club is 1-6 and dealing. The record is already in the October 28 price.

Two first-round picks are an NFL price

Most dynasty leagues roster the picks your fantasy team will make. Those are not the Bears' 2027 and 2028 firsts. If your league does roster real NFL draft picks, retag them today. The 2027 first, the 2028 first, and the 2027 fourth that belonged to Chicago now belong to Tennessee. The 2028 fifth that belonged to Tennessee now belongs to Chicago. The Titans posted that direction of the picks. ESPN, NFL.com, and NBC Sports describe the same exchange.

NFL.com adds the slot context. If the 5-2 Bears stay on the path they are on, those firsts land in the back quarter of the draft order. They are still first-round picks. They are not the early picks a 1-6 club would be sending. Value a Bears 2027 first off Chicago's record. Tennessee being 1-6 tells you why the Titans sold. It does not move Chicago's pick to the top of the round.

Dynasty, skill-player league. There is nothing to roster at tackle. When someone slides "two firsts" into a Simmons offer, they are borrowing the NFL headline. Your rookie first is not that headline. Decline a deal that sends one of your firsts, or two of them, for a defensive tackle you cannot start.

Dynasty, IDP. Hold him if he is yours. If you are buying, the other manager has to be selling a 29-year-old tackle under contract through 2030, not selling the words "two firsts." A fair listen is the price you would pay for an every-week IDP tackle with this sack and pressure line. A bench defender, or a late rookie pick you were not using on a starter, is the range. Two rookie firsts plus a fourth is the Bears' NFL cost, paid because ESPN ranks him second among defensive tackles in sacks since 2019 and because Chicago is trying to win in 2026. Your league does not draft the same way an NFL roster does.

Dynasty, NFL-pick leagues. Hold the picks if you just received Chicago's 2027 and 2028 firsts, unless a contender is paying a skill starter you would play the rest of this season. A back-quarter first, which is the landing spot NFL.com describes if Chicago keeps winning, is a future asset. It is not a 2026 rental, and it is not the 1.01. The fourth-round pick in 2027 is a throw-in at the NFL level. Do not treat it as a second first. The 2028 fifth going back to Chicago is the smaller piece on the other side. Do not let it offset a first in your trade chart.

The deadline context is the calendar, not a second trade. November 10 is twelve days away. The Simmons agreement is already the news. Waiting until the deadline to reprice him, in a league where he scores, means negotiating against a number that moved on Thursday. Waiting to see the physical is reasonable for a Week 8 lineup. It is not a reason to drop him.

What to do before Sunday

Run the offer through your league's scoring in the trade analyzer after you know which format you are in. The labels below are a frame for a 12-team redraft league, for IDP, and for dynasty. They are not stat projections. For a one-year price against a multi-year price, the dynasty trade guide is the longer checklist.

• In a league that does not start defensive tackles, leave Simmons out of the offer.
• In IDP, hold him and sit him in Week 8. Plan Week 9 at home against Tampa Bay only if he is active. Week 10 is a bye.
• Leave Chicago's defense on the wire if you were streaming. If it is already your only defense, keep the start-or-sit decision you had for a road game against the reigning champions. The pending physical is not a spike.
• Hold Williams, Moore, and Burden at the prices on the October 28 board. A new tackle does not create a target.
• Hold Darnold, Smith-Njigba, Wilson, and Charbonnet. Do not sell them because Simmons might play Monday.
• Leave Thomas and Franklin-Myers on the wire. Start the Cincinnati players you were already starting. Hold Tate at the October 28 price.
• If someone offers two of your rookie firsts for Simmons, decline it unless your IDP scoring already prices an elite tackle that high. The two firsts in the news are NFL picks, and NFL.com expects them in the back quarter of the round if Chicago keeps winning.

Player or pick	Redraft into Week 8	Dynasty
Jeffery Simmons	Non-IDP: not a chip. IDP: hold and sit. Team defense: do not stream Chicago on Monday in Seattle.	IDP: hold. Age 29, under contract through 2030. Not two rookie firsts. Non-IDP: not a chip.
Chicago defense	Stream candidate in Week 9 against Tampa Bay only after he is active. Week 10 is a bye.	Not a dynasty asset.
Caleb Williams	Hold. Monday in Seattle is the start you already had.	Hold. The picks describe the window. They do not add targets.
DJ Moore, Luther Burden	Hold at the October 28 prices. Shoulder and route share still govern.	Hold.
Darnold, Smith-Njigba, Wilson, Charbonnet	Hold at the October 28 prices. A pending tackle is not a Monday haircut.	Hold. Smith-Njigba's deal is in the extension article.
Solomon Thomas, John Franklin-Myers	IDP: leave them on the wire. Thomas's 2025 Dallas line is not this sack rate.	Not picks.
Carnell Tate	Hold at the October 28 receiver price. The defense trade does not move his targets.	Hold.
Bears 2027 and 2028 firsts	Not a redraft chip.	Retag them to Tennessee if your league rosters NFL picks. Back-quarter firsts if Chicago stays 5-2, per NFL.com. Not the 1.01.

Sources

• Titans.com: Simmons traded to the Bears, pending a physical, for 2027 and 2028 firsts and a 2027 fourth
• ESPN: Schefter and Rapoport on the package, 2026 line, contract through 2030, and the Bears' pressure rates
• NFL.com: compensation, June extension, Next Gen Stats pressure line, and the draft-pick landing spot
• NBC Sports: four sacks, six tackles for loss, nine quarterback hits, the 2025 All-Pro line, and Chicago's defensive ranks
• AP: Bears acquiring Simmons
• NFL.com: Week 8 schedule, Titans at Bengals and Bears at Seahawks
• NFL.com: Week 9 schedule, Titans bye and Buccaneers at Bears
• NFL.com: 2026 bye weeks, including Tennessee in Week 9 and Chicago in Week 10
• Titans.com: Solomon Thomas trade and his 2025 Dallas line
• Titans.com: 2026 transaction log, including Carnell Tate and John Franklin-Myers