Digging deep into Antonio Brown's trade to Raiders

Hallelujah, the great storm is over.  The Pittsburgh Steelers have agreed to trade wide receiver Antonio Brown to the Oakland Raiders in exchange for a third- and fifth-round pick in this year’s draft, according to Ian Rapoport of NFL.com (Twitter links).  The news has since been confirmed by other major outlets, but Brown was (fittingly) the first to break the story, having posted a Photoshopped picture of himself in a Raiders uniform and a picture of himself and Oakland QB Derek Carr at the Pro Bowl (via Scott Bair of NBC Sports Bay Area on Twitter). RapSheet also tweets Brown will get a new deal from the Raiders, which does not add more time onto the three years he had remaining on his contract with the Steelers. It does make him the highest-paid receiver in the NFL from an AAV standpoint. Brown’s new pact with Oakland will reportedly pay him $50.125M over the next three seasons, plus $4M in incentives, for an AAV of $19.8M. Plus, Brown gets $30.125M in guarantees, and his contract with Pittsburgh had no

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