Turf Show Times
The Los Angeles Rams are always one of the first teams to pop up in trade rumors for star players and it’s inevitable that they will be connected to A.J. Brown when the season is officially over. But if the Rams want to find a future after Davante Adams by trading for Brown, they should not do it for at least one simple reason: A.J. Brown is also too old.
The Eagles are hoping to find a sucker.
Ignore what Eagles GM Howie Roseman says about the team not intending to trade Brown, that’s the same schlock that general manager say every year about players on the block. It’s 2026: You can’t still be falling for that in this age.
Yes, Brown had a terrible game in Philly’s loss to the 49ers last week.
Yes, Brown seems to be a diva.
Yes, Brown is costly.
But those aren’t the main reason that a team shouldn’t trade anything significant for A.J. Brown. He’s just too old.
And he’s only 28. Well, wake up, it’s 2026: That’s too old to be a receiver in the National Football League. Every player in the top 12 in receiving yards in 2025 is 26 and younger:
26!!!
A.J. Brown, who had 1,003 yards in 15 games, is going to turn 29 in June. He’s not too old…he’s WAY too old.
Not too old to be in the NFL, but certainly too old to pay $30 million or trade a first round pick to acquire. Those are the types of costs you pay for an elite receiver you can build your offense around and Brown, who was that value in 2022 when the Eagles acquired him at age 25, is not that guy anymore.
If Roseman thinks that pretending he won’t trade A.J. Brown will drive up his price to a first round pick, he’ll be waiting all year for a taker.
How about a second round pick? That’s what the Steelers traded for DK Metcalf and then they paid Metcalf $33 million per season. How’s that looking?
Metcalf, who just turned 28, had 850 yards and was suspended for the last two games of the season for making the exact same “Mr. Sensitive” mistakes that he made while he was a cheaper player in Seattle. That’s really when you want to have a star receiver: When he’s cheap and on a rookie contract or second contract.
But the Steelers traded for Metcalf and paid him a third contract. The Eagles paid Brown a third contract in 2024 and they already regret it.
If the Eagles trade A.J. Brown before June 1st, they will incur a $43 million dead cap charge in 2026, which is basically double what they will pay Brown if they don’t trade him. Here’s what Jimmy Kempski wrote in The Philly Voice:
If Brown is traded this offseason before June 1, the Eagles would incur a dead cap charge of $43,515,106. Worded another way, he would...
