Antonio Brown trade has ripple effect across the NFL

Now that the Raiders have agreed to acquire wide receiver Antonio Brown from the Steelers, you can be sure more news about the deal (and the deals that were discussed, but never came to be), will be trickling in.  We will monitor the AB fallout throughout the day, as the football world continues to process the conclusion of the biggest storyline of the offseason. For now, we have this: The Eagles did discuss Brown with the Steelers, but as ESPN’s Adam Schefter tweets, those talks never got serious. Instead, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh were simply doing their due diligence. Eliot Shorr-Parks of 94WIP.com suggests it was the new contract that Brown was demanding, rather than the draft picks, that scared off the Eagles (Twitter link). Ian Rapoport of NFL.com (via Twitter) agrees with Shorr-Parks’ theory, saying plenty of teams were willing to give up the third- and fifth-round picks that ultimately got the job done, but no team was willing to tear up Brown’s existing contract and give him a new one. That deal a

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