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In keeping with ESPN’s Adam Schefter, the Pittsburgh Steelers have discovered an acceptable buying and selling companion for disgruntled large receiver Antonio Brown. In accepting Antonio Brown amongst their very own, the Raiders will hand the star wideout a brand new $54.125 million deal, which $30.125 million is assured, as per Schefter’s sources. The reported value the commerce: a third and a fifth spherical draft choose.
In liberating themselves Antonio’s $17 million per 12 months wage, the Steelers will truly recoupe $19.eight million a 12 months in cap house. So in essence, the Raiders have performed good enterprise in turning Amari Cooper into Antonio Brown in the event you come to assume it, contemplating the steadiness draft picks in play. AB was first to report the transaction on his Instagram web page, the place he may be taking to the sphere in a photoshopped Raiders’ uniform.
Technically talking, NFL transactions the like cannot be deemed “ficial” till the brand new league 12 months commences on Wednesday. This was a coup Jon Gruden and the Raiders, Derek Carrin specific, wanted virtually desperately, after arising the clear loser in final season’s Khalil Mack commerce that re-energized the Chicago Bears. AB joins a Raiders’ fense that ranked 18th within the league in passing effectivity, averaging 234.four yards per sport by way of the air. AB will inevitably usurp Jordy Nelson within the pecking order as Derek Carr’s dynamic 1st possibility.