Chargers swap roster bubble players with Jaguars in this trade proposal

Travis Wakeman

Chargers swap roster bubble players with Jaguars in this trade proposal image

Teams around the league are looking at every option when it comes to the best way to get their rosters down to 53 players ahead of the league deadline which this year falls on August 29 at 1:00 pm PT.

Between now and then, you can expect to see a flurry of moves around the league and some trades could take place, such as the one that saw Matthew Judon join the Atlanta Falcons for a third-round pick. 

The Los Angeles Chargers could think about a trade as well and running back Isaiah Spiller is a player who has often been connected to trade talks. 

The sky seemed the limit for Spiller when the Chargers drafted him in the fourth round of the 2022 NFL Draft but to this point, the team hasn't been a good fit for him. So what if the Chargers were to send him to a team in need of a running back rather than just waive him?

Take a look at this trade idea:

Chargers get: DL Roy Robertson-Harris
Jaguars get: RB Isaiah Spiller, 2025 6th-round pick

The Chargers give up the younger player and a future draft pick here but they get some proven production at a position of need in return. 

Roy Robertson-Harris was undrafted in 2016 but has stuck in the league for eight seasons with the Chicago Bears and Jacksonville Jaguars due to his consistency. He has played in every regular season game in each of the last two seasons and has 17 sacks and nearly 200 total tackles in his career. 

Chargers sending Spiller to Jacksonville for defensive lineman a win for both sides

The Jaguars are not deep at running back behind starter Travis Etienne, so there could be interest. The Chargers don't have much in the way of proven depth along the defensive line and looking at the roster as a whole, it appears to be the weak spot of the team. 

Pulling off a trade like this one makes perfect sense for this time of year. Robertson-Harris will most likely make the team in Jacksonville but he wouldn't see a lot of playing time outside of a player getting injured due to the depth chart in front of him. 

Spiller could easily be waived as part of final cuts and if we're honest, that seems likely right now especially given the emergence of Jaret Patterson this summer. 

This trade would work for both sides. 

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Travis Wakeman

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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.