(02-12-2019, 05:51 PM)NYC4jags Wrote:

(02-12-2019, 05:37 PM)rpr52121 Wrote: Are you expecting AB to hold out for a new contract if he is traded?

If a team trades for Brown, it will owe him ~ $36.4 million over a three-year deal, $12.6 million for the 2019 season or $14.1 million if the new team has to pay the roster bonus. He’s due only $23.8 million (or $11.9 million per year) for the 2020 and 2021 seasons. https://ftw.usatoday.com/2019/02/steeler...-cap-space

Jags probably shouldn't do it, but it wont cost $20 million/year.

If the trading team assumes Brown's contract with its current structure, then his cap hit in 2019 is $22 million.
EDIT:
nevermind - I see how he'd only cost 14 million now. Jags wouldn't have to pay the prorated bonus and restructure proration.

Still too much for me for a guy turning 31 this summer.

I  also can certainly see AB being far from a willing participant in any trade that ends in him playing cheaply in 2019.