Las Vegas Raiders edge rusher Maxx Crosby has been the subject of trade rumors early in the 2026 NFL offseason.
The five-time Pro Bowler is doing his best to avoid feeding into them, as he explained on a Feb. 10 edition of Jim Gray’s ‘Let’s Go!’ podcast.
‘My focus has been on getting healthy because that’s all I can control right now,’ Crosby said when asked what he wanted amid the rumors. ‘That’s all that matters to me is being with my daughters and being with my wife and taking care of myself.’
‘People are gonna have rumors,’ Crosby added. ‘I just looked at my phone – I’ve been working all morning. Everyone’s hitting me up, ‘Did you say this?’ I can’t control that. You earn that as a player. If I wasn’t doing the right things and if I wasn’t the person and player I was, people wouldn’t be talking about all the nonsense. But that’s what comes with it. If you have drama, if you have a losing season, they just try to throw gasoline on the fire and make things a certain way.’
Crosby has been the subject of trade rumors since the end of the 2025 NFL season. He left the Raiders facility after being shut down for the final two games of the regular season, expressing discontent with the decision as Las Vegas jostled for the 2026 NFL Draft’s No. 1 pick.
‘I don’t give a (expletive) about the pick, I don’t play for that,’ Crosby said after the decision in December. ‘That’s not my job. My job is to be the best defensive end in the world, and that’s what I focus on every day.’
More recently, Fox Sports’ Jay Glazer reported Feb. 4 that Crosby was done with the Raiders while ESPN’s Adam Schefter further outlined in a Feb. 9 appearance on ‘The Pat McAfee Show’ that ‘there’s a feeling around the league that Maxx Crosby would like to be traded.’
Crosby has made it clear he is paying no mind to the rumors as he begins preparations for his eighth NFL season.
‘For me, I know what I’m about. I know what I represent,’ he told Gray. ‘I really don’t care what everybody has to say. I used to a lot as a young guy. I really don’t give a damn. People can have their own opinions. I know what’s going on. I know my truth. And I don’t need to sit here and keep rehashing it to people that don’t know what’s going on. So, I don’t even waste time with it.’
That said, Crosby also acknowledged one of his main goals is to win. He has endured five losing seasons across his first seven years with the Raiders, including a 3-14 campaign in 2025.
‘I have a lot of goals, but I do wanna win,’ Crosby said. ‘That’s all that matters ultimately, but I wanna be in a place mentally where I’m 100% myself. I just wanna focus on football. That’s truly what I want.’
‘People that know me know I’m about the work and football,’ he added. ‘I just wanna play football and be left the (expletive) alone. Period. And people that don’t understand that, don’t (expletive) know me.’
