Antonio Brown

BREAKING: Antonio Brown is heading to the Raiders, per @ProFootballTalk

BREAKING: The Steelers are trading WR Antonio Brown (@AB84) to the Oakland @Raiders. (via @RapSheet)

The Antonio Brown saga is finally nearing a close. Sources say the #Steelers are dealing AB to the #Raiders in exchange for a third round pick and a fifth round pick in this 2019 draft. Brown will also get a reworked contract that makes him the NFL’s highest paid WR.

Raiders are adding money to Antonio Brown’s deal: He now will have three years worth $50.125 million - with incentives to go to $54.125 million, per source. Where there was no guaranteed money there’s now $30.125 million guaranteed, per source.

Antonio Brown is gone from Pittsburgh, but not forgotten. Brown will leave the Steelers with a dead-money salary-cap charge of over $21 million this season, thought to be the biggest one-year salary-cap charge in NFL history.

The Raiders are re-working Antonio Brown’s contract to make him the highest-paid WR in the league. He went from $0 guaranteed in the next three years to $30.125M, per @ProFootballTalk. 💰 BOOMIN’ 💰

Net for the 3 major Raiders trades. Raiders give up: Khalil Mack Amari Cooper 2019 3rd round 2019 5th round 2020 2nd round 2020 6th round In exchange for: Antonio Brown 2019 1st round 2019 1st round 2020 1st round 2020 2nd round 2020 5th round

Two years ago, the #Steelers gave Antonio Brown a deal worth $17M per year. This new deal takes that and turns it into a deal worth $19.8M per year. Essentially AB took the remaining $38.925M over the next 3 years and turned it into $50.125M... plus $4M incentives to $54.125M.

I'll take Amari Cooper over Antonio Brown any day. Amari just makes plays, not waves.

This really is wild. Antonio Brown skipped work, disparaged the Steelers publicly, said he wouldn't play on a contract with three years left, then got a raise of almost $20 million with $30-plus million in new guarantees on his way to a new team. Savage power play.

In the end, Antonio Brown converted the Steelers four-year extension at $17 million per year into what is now amounting to $19.8 million per year in new money.

The Raiders basically gave up Amari Cooper, a third and a fifth for Antonio Brown and a first. Not bad.

Mike Mayock’s first deal as @raiders GM is to acquire Antonio Brown and make him the highest paid WR in the game just 2 months after he was reported to leave his team hanging in a must-win game. Now that’s a sentence I never thought I’d type.

Imagine passing on Khalil Mack in his prime at $23.5M/yr to pay a 31-year old Antonio Brown $19M/yr.

Antonio Brown will now count more against the Steelers cap while not playing for them ($21.12M) than any other WR will count for his own team in 2019.

Antonio Brown in the end zone when the Raiders are down 37-10

More on WR Antonio Brown being traded from the Pittsburgh Steelers to the Oakland Raiders for third- and fifth-round draft picks: https://t.co/LIu8sNv05p

Raiders trade Amari Cooper for a 1st-round pick. Raiders trade a 3rd-round & 5th-round pick for Antonio Brown. Great move, Oakland.

Antonio Brown quit on his teammates & exhibited highly erratic behavior and as a result got a $20M raise with $30M guaranteed. Great lesson for all the kids out there.

Derek Carr throwing to Antonio Brown

Three highest paid non-QBs in the NFL, by APY ... • Bears OLB Khalil Mack $23.5M • Rams DL Aaron Donald $22.5M • Raiders WR Antonio Brown $19.8M Holdout, holdout, trade demand. Same as it ever was -- if NFL players want to get paid, they have to be willing to get muddy.

•Raiders basically gave up Amari Cooper, a 3rd round pick, and a 5th round pick for Antonio Brown and a 1st round pick. •Note they are making Antonio Brown (Turns 31 this July) the highest paid WR in the NFL. •Amari Cooper ✭ turns 25 in June https://t.co/5h0CoFQ2t9

The trade compensation — a third and a fifth going to the #Steelers — wasn’t an issue. Several teams were willing to give that or more. The contract was the issue. In the end, Antonio Brown got his old deal ripped up and redone, a rarity. His demands limited the pool to 1 team.

antonio brown was one of the best receivers of all-time, it’s simply incredible that he was insufferable enough that almost all steelers fans are excited to see him traded for almost nothing

Antonio Brown after one quarter with the Raiders

Antonio Brown has been traded to the Raiders for a third and fifth round pick in the 2019 draft. Can't become official until March 12.

Antonio Brown gets sent where he wanted to be sent and gets a big fat raise, while the Steelers get two (not-so-great) picks and are left bloodied. Yep. https://t.co/72H9NxoJH7

Antonio Brown is going to be a Raider. Thank you for all you have done for Steelers Nation! It's a shame to see it come to an end the way it did.

Antonio Brown to the Raiders sells more tickets than he could for any other team. The Raiders needed a player who matched the flash of Vegas on and off the field. The arguably couldn’t have picked better with Brown. https://t.co/AKBYL3pSvc

Imagine yo favorite team gave up a 1st round pick for Amari Cooper then you see Antonio Brown dealt for a 3rd & 5th. I’d be hanging from a rope right now. SHEESH.

Acquisition of Antonio Brown shifts Raiders from 75-1 to 50-1 to win the Super Bowl https://t.co/jWRA5cCt56

Antonio Brown did what any NFL player must to gain leverage in a league where the rules are slanted so hard against them. Don’t hate the player, hate the game. He did what he had to do. And he won. #Steelers #Raiders

Ravens should be happy about not having to face Antonio Brown twice a year. Brown, who was traded to Raiders, has caught more passes (99) and produced more YAC (490) than any other player has totaled against Ravens over last 2 decade. And no one will forget Immaculate Extension.

There’s a lot to like about the deal the #Raiders made with the #Steelers and Antonio Brown https://t.co/bITmQ1gare

After Antonio Brown’s first game with the Raiders

The following has happened following losing to the Jaguars in the playoffs: - Jim Kelly retires. - Dan Marino retires. - Leveon Bell quits on Steelers. - Antonio Brown demands trade from Steelers.

Over the last 10+ months, the #Raiders and #Steelers have made three separate WR trades: 4/26: #Steelers send Martavis Bryant to Oakland for a 3rd. 8/27: #Raiders send Ryan Switzer to Pittsburgh for a 5th. 3/10: #Steelers send Antonio Brown to Oakland for a 3rd & 5th.

PIT gets 2019 3rd and 5th round pick for Antonio Brown a year after getting a 3 for Martavis Bryant. Not the return they wanted but he had to go and there wete few intereated teams. According to teams that spoke to PIT, BUF was prepared to swap 20 and 9 and deal 2 midround picks

The #Steelers considered having Antonio Brown in their locker room so detrimental they not only took less than normal market value in the trade but accept a $21M cap disadvantage too. That’s true hate in the #NFL.

What does Antonio Brown lose in this deal? Legacy. That's really it. He won't win a Super Bowl with the Raiders. His production won't be as good. He becomes the poster boy for diva WRs. But he got richer.

Raiders headline on March 10: Wow we got Antonio Brown and didn’t give up much!! We win!!! . . . . Raiders headline on November 10: Who is to blame for the Antonio Brown fiasco? Gruden? Mayock? Davis??

3rd and a 5th; In former Browns currency that's Cody Kessler and Jordan Payton for Antonio Brown.

Antonio Brown when Derek Carr overthrows an out route for the 15th time

5 reasons the Raiders won the @ab84 trade #Raiders #RaiderNation @BWeiss2330 https://t.co/svRIKpmjMF

Everyone said Antonio Brown did everything wrong & was only hurting himself & his image. Well guess what? Only people he hurt were PIT. He got out, got paid & will end up with the best selling jersey on his team. Antonio Brown did it what was best for AB and man did he cash in...

Antonio Brown won. He's leaving the Steelers for the Raiders and getting a new contract with $30M+ guaranteed: https://t.co/Pf5F1bMZnI 📸: @AB84

wow that's crazy that antonio brown left a playoff team for a...oh, sorry, i was holding the standings upside down. Pittsburgh in fact was not a playoff team. https://t.co/mrEEZHsNvU

Raiders traded Amari Cooper to Cowboys, in part, because they didn’t want to give him a big-money deal going forward. Now, the big-money deal the Raiders have given Antonio Brown to acquire him from Pittsburgh will raise the ceiling on what Cowboys must pay Cooper.

Lmao the Steelers got fucking fleeced on that Antonio Brown deal. #FuckShittsburgh

Since Antonio Brown entered the league the Raiders have won as many Super Bowls as the Steelers. https://t.co/4uv95cHWdK

How Good Does Antonio Brown Make the Raiders? https://t.co/tREOE3uy8r

@thatguynamedbb @RapSheet From Ben Roethlisberger to Derek Carr? LMAO just a matter of time before we see Antonio Brown rampaging around the Raiders bench complaining about the Raiders offense. LMAO This gonna be good!

@ThePoniExpress If someone offered you tens of million more dollars to go work at a slightly shittier radio station and max out your lifetime worth what would you do? OBVIOUSLY hypothetical because your particular set of skills - shit posting? - isn't worth nearly what Antonio Brown's is.

Just waking up? @AB84 is now a Raider https://t.co/HLXfmbDWpk

My 10-year old woke up today and asked if Antonio Brown was going to move from Gibsonia and what that meant for AB's tree house?

So when the #Raiders move to Las Vegas with ANTONIO BROWN...

@923TheFan NOBODY AGREES WITH YOU @JPeterlin THAT ANTONIO BROWN WENT TO A "LOSING TEAM", NEVER JUDGE THIS YEAR TEAM AND RECORD BY LAST YEAR ROSTER AND RECORD. NFL 101.

@MatthewBerryTMR says Juju ahead of Antonio Brown in fantasy next season, and yeah I would agree. #Steelers offense will still score plenty, can’t say the same about the #Raiders

BREAKING: The #Steelers are trading WR Antonio Brown to the #Raiders

The 2018 season is going to serve as a dark spot for the #Steelers franchise forever due to Le’Veon Bell & Antonio Brown’s departures. Rest assured though, it will be a learning experience the franchise never forgets.

A third and a fifth for Antonio Brown... wow. I get it, because he’s acted like a total Dbag and shot him/Pittsburgh in the foot. But terrible compensation for the Steelers.

Ryan Switzer + Martavis Bryant = Antonio Brown 😮 https://t.co/EDNTqOxBcr

Here is a list of good players that Big Ben ran off of the Steelers: Lev Bell Antonio Brown Heath Miller Plaxico Burress Hines Ward Mike Wallace Rashard Mendenhall Emmanuel Sanders Simply put, Ben is a locker room cancer, and the Steelers support him in his ways

Antonio Brown....F@ck that guy!

@TheMisterV @dbe451 Antonio Brown has never caught a TD pass from anybody not named Ben Roethlisberger. That blows my mind given how Ben was injury prone in the past

It really annoys me that Antonio Brown acted like a petulant child and got exactly what he wanted. However, it's not nearly as annoying as the fact that a dude with this haircut gets to be a billionaire

The #Raiders turned Amari Cooper and a 3rd rounded into a 1st and Antonio Brown. Damn.

Wow the #Raiders actually acquired one of the best WR's in the #NFL in Antonio Brown & didn't have 2 give up much in return! Kudos Mike Mayock, I can't wait 2 see what he can do at the Draft! #RaiderNation #JustWinBaby #NFL ☠🏈☠

Antonio Brown nos Raiders.. Bom Vai ser o pilar do novo time de Las Vegas Apesar de ser uma diva é o melhor WR da liga Se o Derek Carr voltar a jogar um pouquinho já vai ajudar muito

No way in hell I’m taking anything less than a high 2nd rounder for Antonio Brown smh A 3rd and 4th? That’s not a trade; that’s a stick up.