The Denver Broncos made one of the big deals before the NFL trade deadline arrived on Tuesday by sending pass-rusher Bradley Chubb to the Miami Dolphins in exchange for running back Chase Edmonds, a 2023 first-round draft pick and a 2024 fourth-round draft pick.

Denver also sent a 2024 fourth-round pick to the New York Jets for defensive end Jacob Martin and a 2024 fifth-round pick.

But the Broncos did not trade a wide receiver after the NFL rumor mill had a variety of suitors circling the 3-5 team hoping to land one of Denver’s wideouts, particularly former Alabama All-American Jerry Jeudy.

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“We received a number of calls on our receivers and some other positions,” Broncos general manager George Paton said on Tuesday after the trade deadline had passed. “We wanted to keep our young talented receivers. I think we started to get some rhythm in the last game versus Jacksonville, and we just feel good with where we’re going. We’re trending in the right direction with Jerry and (KJ) Hamler and Courtland (Sutton), and we didn’t want to break that up. We think we have a good thing going. We’re in it to win it moving forward, so we kept all of our receivers.”

On Thursday, the New York Giants traded wide receiver Kadarius Toney to the Kansas City Chiefs, getting third- and sixth-round picks in the 2023 draft for the 2021 first-round draft choice.

With Sterling Shepard out for the season, Kenny Golladay injured and unproductive and rookie Wan’Dale Robinson off to a slow start because of an injury, the Toney trade heightened the perceived need at wide receiver for the Giants and put New York at the forefront of the Jeudy speculation.

Empire Sports Media reported the Broncos wanted at least a second-round pick and fifth-round choice to part with Jeudy.

Giants general manager Joe Schoen said he did inquire about wide receivers for his 6-2 team before the trade deadline.

“If something made sense in regard to the position, we explored a lot of opportunities,” Schoen said after the trade deadline passed. “We’ve been on the phone a lot the last few days. Not just the last few days, these calls again have been going on for, I’ll go back to August on some of these players that we had identified under certain parameters — you know, years left, contract structure, where we were in terms of salary cap that would make sense for us and just the value. You’ve got to have two to tango on these deals, and just different value between the other team and where we were just didn’t work out for us. …

“Wide receivers were part of the conversations, but again so were — I’m not going to go into every position that we were talking about. We were just trying to add good players whether it was front-line or depth players. The problem is there’s a lot of teams that are still in it where we are in the season, so not a lot of teams are sellers. Teams are banged up. There’s not a surplus of players that are available. It’s a small pool. It only takes one team to outbid you or go higher.

“Where we are receiver-wise, again, the guys that have played had good games, bad games. Jacksonville — we’d like to have some of those back and some of those drops. But Kenny’s, hopefully, coming back soon. Fingers are crossed he’ll be back for Houston. It’ll be good to get a look at him again. I’m hopeful for him against Houston.”

In his third NFL season since joining the Broncos in the first round of the 2020 NFL Draft, Jeudy leads Denver with three touchdown receptions in 2022. His 30 receptions and 449 receiving yards rank second on the team to Sutton’s 35 receptions and 467 receiving yards.

After acquiring quarterback Russell Wilson from the Seattle Seahawks in an offseason blockbuster, the Broncos were supposed to be better than their current record. Denver rallied from a 21-17 deficit on Sunday to beat the Jacksonville Jaguars and end a four-game losing streak.

But the trade of Chubb shouldn’t be interpreted as a white flag on the 2022 season, Paton said.

“One thing for certain: Our goals, our expectations, they do not change,” Paton said, “and we want to win and we believe we can win. More importantly, we want to sustain success. It’s going to help us improve this football team moving forward.”

The Broncos have their open date this week. They return to the field when they visit the Tennessee Titans at noon CST Nov. 13.

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Mark Inabinett is a sports reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter at @AMarkG1.