If not for anything else, the offseason is a chance to drink in all the rumors and explore all the possible timelines—even the darkest of those timelines.
According to MyBookie Sportsbook, the Detroit Lions have the second-best odds to land Antonio Brown, the guy who’s currently not speaking to anyone—“officially”—within the Pittsburgh Steelers organization.
While everyone has taken to Twitter with hypothetical trades, arguing the value of draft picks, the value of Antonio Brown himself, and a bunch of other stuff that’s almost entirely conjecture, it’s important to keep some things in mind while playing Armchair GM, and over at Spotrac, Michael Ginnitti outlines the important factors to keep in mind when trading a player of Brown’s magnitude.