ESPN analysts<\/a> came up with hypothetical trade offers for Brown from the Ravens, Cleveland Browns, Buffalo Bills, and New England Patriots. For the Ravens, Ben Solak proposed they send a 2027 second-round pick, a 2027 fourth-round pick (conditional third-rounder), and Bateman to the Eagles for Brown.<\/p>\n“By replacing Bateman with Brown, the Ravens can give Brown a true WR1’s volume and use Zay Flowers as a big-play WR2 — something that fits his skill set more,” Solak wrote. “In Philadelphia, DeVonta Smith is clearly destined to be WR1; Bateman represents a classic buy-low move from [Eagles GM Howie] Roseman on a player with high draft capital but modest career production.<\/p>\n
“Figuring out a trade return for Brown is tough, as he doesn’t have many prime years left and will be expensive for the Eagles to trade pre-June 1. So I’m offering a deal centered on 2027 draft capital, including a conditional selection based on reaching 1,000 yards and making the playoffs in 2026.”<\/p>\n
Assessing each team’s hypothetical proposal, ESPN’s Tim McManus concluded that the Eagles would reject all of them.<\/p>\n
“Why would I want to make these teams better and mine worse? That has essentially been Roseman’s public stance on the situation,” McManus wrote. “Brown is the type of player you try to acquire, not get rid of — and it makes total sense. So if I’m the Eagles here, I’m going to do everything in my power to make the situation work — and so long as the hope outweighs the doubt, I’m rejecting all four proposals.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ESPN Proposes Hypothetical Trade Offer From Ravens to Acquire A.J. Brown The Ravens continue to be mentioned as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":762555,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2052],"tags":[184,117,2282,7,781,786,888,6,169],"class_list":{"0":"post-762554","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-baltimore-ravens","8":"tag-baltimore","9":"tag-baltimore-ravens","10":"tag-baltimoreravens","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-general","13":"tag-homepage-centerpiece","14":"tag-late-for-work","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-ravens"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116097791327181754","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=762554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/762555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}