It has been reported that the Pittsburgh Steelers have traded wide receiver Antonio Brown to the Oakland Raiders for a third- and a fifth-round pick.
There is a verbal agreement for Antonio Brown to be traded to the Oakland Raiders, per source.
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) March 10, 2019
Additionally, the Raiders are adding money to his three year contract. Antonio Brown will now have three years worth $50.125 million, with incentives to go to $54.125 million, and now $30.125 million guranteed.
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.
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) March 10, 2019In 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.
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) March 10, 2019Unfortunatley for the Steelers the Brown trade leaves them with over $21 million in dead money this season.
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.
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) March 10, 2019Here is the first potential look at Antonio Brown dawning the silver and black...
☠️☠️☠️ #RaiderNation pic.twitter.com/ul6lIVk9dE
— Antonio Brown (@AB84) March 10, 2019



