WWE Draft 2024: 10 Roster Trades That MUST Happen

2. Roman Reigns (SmackDown > Raw)

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Roman Reigns showed up on Raw a bunch of times during the build towards WrestleMania, but he's very-much been positioned as SmackDown's main man for years now. It's time to change that and give the wounded 'Tribal Chief' some new hunting grounds. Why not, eh? Roman on Raw sounds like it'd work out well.

The fallen Undisputed Champ will probably take a bit more time off before making his presence felt, but that's alright. WWE can still announce that Raw has drafted him at the end of April, then Adam Pearce can crow about how his show is the "A show" (because GMs love doing that).

One of the niftiest shockwaves to this would be that The Rock, who is currently a SmackDown man, could quietly shift over to Raw once he's ready to return to action and kick off their feud. However, Rocky wouldn't be doing that before coming back on Friday nights to reveal exactly what it was he handed this guy....

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