It almost feels like certain teams around the NFL have to make a blockbuster move if they want to be as good as they typically are.<\/p>\n
Right now, the Philadelphia Eagles<\/a> have one of the top trade assets in all of the league, with AJ Brown<\/a> expected to be traded sometime within the next few days. After June 1, it sounds like the game will be on regarding Brown being moved.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n At the same time, the Eagles can’t just move on from Brown in any deal. They have to ensure they get the best possible package in return, whether that’s a trade to the New England Patriots<\/a> or to another team in the NFL.<\/p>\n If another random team wants to come out of the blue and give the Eagles exactly what they’re looking for in a deal for the star wide receiver, that’s what has to happen.<\/p>\n For New England<\/a>, however, it’s also very important to remember that it might need to make that blockbuster deal if it wants to get back to the top of the football world and make the Super Bowl once again. In fact, one Patriots writer believes that if they don’t add Brown, New England won’t be the team it is looking to be.<\/p>\n \u201cStanding pat isn\u2019t good enough. A first-round pick in any draft could be considered too rich for Brown, and the Patriots could argue that a fair price for the receiver would start with a second-round pick as the framework of a potential deal.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n \u201cHowever, if New England enters next season with Romeo Doubs<\/a> as its top receiver on the depth chart, then the offense has taken a step back in terms of the pass catchers available for Maye<\/a>. Doubs is younger than Diggs<\/a> and has plenty of room for development, but looking at the situation in a vacuum, he has never produced Diggs\u2019 2025 numbers. An improvement to the wide receiver room was needed even prior to the Diggs and Doubs swap. The Patriots\u2019 2028 first-round selection<\/a> is worth the price for Brown, although a 2027 first should be off limits for injury and Super Bowl hangover insurance. Nonetheless, New England can\u2019t become complacent,\u201d Andrew Guindon of SB Nation wrote<\/a>.<\/p>\n It’s interesting to look at the 2027 first-rounder potentially not being on the table.<\/p>\n I highly doubt that’s going to be the case, as Howie Roseman always ensures that he gets the best possible package in return. If he believes he wants that 2027 first for any reason, I’d go out on a limb and say he’s going to get it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It almost feels like certain teams around the NFL have to make a blockbuster move if they want…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":903165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2068],"tags":[5831,118142,512,25,1972,7,2939,1167,249,6,242,109,2476,3995,425],"class_list":["post-903164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia-eagles","tag-aj-brown","tag-blockbuster-deal","tag-diggs","tag-eagles","tag-first-round-selection","tag-football","tag-maye","tag-new-england","tag-new-england-patriots","tag-nfl","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-eagles","tag-philadelphiaeagles","tag-romeo-doubs","tag-the-eagles"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116650125785771686","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903164","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=903164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/903165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=903164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=903164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=903164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}