The Colts deal Nelson and Buckner.

Indianapolis traded guard Quenton Nelson to Seattle for a 2027 third-round pick and a 2028 fifth-round pick, and defensive tackle DeForest Buckner to San Francisco for a 2027 fourth-round pick on Tuesday, Oct. 27, according to the transactions list on Wikipedia's 2026 NFL season page.

The Colts are 2–5. Their latest game, a 16–10 loss at Minnesota on Sunday, Oct. 25, falls just outside this issue's two-day window. Their season page calls Nelson a longtime Colt and notes that Buckner is going back to San Francisco.

Both players join teams with winning records. San Francisco is 6–1 and has a bye this week. Seattle is 4–3 after beating Kansas City 20–3 on Sunday, Oct. 25, and hosts Chicago on Monday, Nov. 2, at 8:15 p.m. ET.

Sunday's Week 7 games, on Oct. 25, are context here. The Vikings beat the Colts after trailing 10–6 at halftime and are 6–0. They play at Detroit, which is 4–2, on Sunday, Nov. 1, at 1 p.m. ET.

Earlier that Sunday, in the first NFL regular-season game played in France, Pittsburgh beat New Orleans 16–10 at the Stade de France in Paris, before 78,488. Chris Boswell kicked three field goals and Aaron Rodgers threw a 4-yard touchdown pass to Darnell Washington.

The win leaves the Steelers level with Cleveland at 5–2 atop the AFC North in the standings after Week 7. They host the Browns at Acrisure Stadium on Sunday, Nov. 1, at 1 p.m. ET.

Three Western Conference teams are 4–0 after Monday, Oct. 26. Houston beat Atlanta 120–110 at home, with Alperen Şengün scoring 29. Oklahoma City beat Phoenix 125–114 at home, led by Ajay Mitchell's 30 points. Memphis won 110–105 at Utah. Portland is unbeaten too, at 3–0 after winning 136–129 at the Lakers on Tuesday, Oct. 27. All four results are final in each team's game log on Wikipedia.

Memphis also has the West's first Player of the Week. Ty Jerome was named Western Conference Player of the Week for Oct. 20–25, with Philadelphia's Tyrese Maxey the East's. The games behind it fall before this issue's window: Jerome led the Grizzlies in scoring in each of their first three, with 45 points against Utah on Oct. 21, 28 at Golden State and 31 at Sacramento. In Monday's rematch at Utah, Cedric Coward led them with 16.

The first test comes Thursday, Oct. 29, when Memphis, at 4–0, plays at Portland, at 3–0; neither plays before then, so at most one of them leaves unbeaten. The Thunder visit the Rockets on Saturday, Oct. 31. Before that, Oklahoma City plays at Dallas tonight, while Houston plays at Milwaukee tonight and at Dallas on Friday. By this issue's arithmetic, Saturday is a meeting of unbeaten teams only if Houston wins twice more and Oklahoma City once.

Three or four games is a small sample, and the opponents so far differ. What these meetings can show is how each team holds up against another side that hasn't lost; what they can't settle is who is better over a full season.

The weekend's results, from Saturday, Oct. 24, fall just outside this issue's two-day window, so they are context here. Miami is 7–0 and No. 1 in the AP poll dated Oct. 25 after beating Pittsburgh 52–23 at home. Ohio State, idle that weekend, is No. 2 at 6–1.

The biggest fall was BYU's. The No. 2 Cougars lost 39–31 in double overtime at UCF, as UCF quarterback Keyone Jenkins threw three touchdown passes and ran for another. BYU, now 6–1, fell to No. 8 and plays Arizona State on Saturday.

Miami plays at North Carolina on Saturday, Oct. 31, at 7:30 p.m. ET on ABC, then at Notre Dame on Nov. 7. The first College Football Playoff rankings are listed for Tuesday, Nov. 3.

Tampa Bay beat Milwaukee 4–3 in 12 innings in Game 4 on Tuesday, Oct. 27, at Tropicana Field, after losing the first three games. Cooper Pratt's home run put the Brewers ahead 3–2 in the top of the 12th. In the bottom half, Jonny DeLuca's single tied it and pinch hitter Ben Williamson's single to right won it. Milwaukee leads 3–1, and Game 5 is tonight at 8 p.m. ET in St. Petersburg.