Antonio Brown To The Raiders- Steelers Get Screwed!

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The Steelers traded Brown to the Raiders for only two draft picks- a 3rd rounder and a 5th rounder!

Not only that, but they also eat 21.1 million in dead cap money for 2019!

Quote:In making this trade now, the Steelers are passing up the opportunity to keep one of the five best wideouts in football on their roster for $22.2 million of cap space for the opportunity to eat $21.1 million in dead money on their 2019 cap and let that guy play for somebody else. Organizations only eat that sort of dead money when they have a player commit some serious off-field discretion (Junior Galette, Ray Rice), or if they're rebuilding and dumping underwater contracts from the previous regime (Marcell Dareus), and that's usually over two seasons.

He's the best wideout in football!

All that dead money, plus losing AB, you gotta wonder how demoralizing that will be to the locker room! Will Ben think about retiring?!

Quote:In the process of trying to push his way out of Pittsburgh, Brown eroded the organization's leverage. The Steelers spent the past two months publicly flailing, alternately leaking stories that suggested a trade hinged on getting a first-round pick, then suggesting it wouldn't. They set a final offer deadline for Friday and then let that deadline come and go. After news conferences and statements from various levels of the organization seemingly contradicting each other, they were forced to settle for third- and fifth-round picks from the only team that seemed seriously interested in bidding for Brown throughout the entire process.

Imagine going 12 months back in time to tell the biggest Steelers fan you know that Pittsburgh traded Brown for two midround draft picks. Heck, imagine going back six months ago and telling the biggest Steelers fan you know that they would get worked in a deal by the Raiders.

Like I keep saying, the Steelers are falling apart!

ESPN's trade grades:

Raiders: A-

Steelers: C-

It's a rough day in Steelers nation!