News broke late Saturday night into early Sunday morning that the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Oakland Raiders had agreed in principle to a trade to send wide receiver Antonio Brown out west in exchange for Oakland’s third- and fifth-round draft picks.
The deal had to be made, but it inevitably leaves a major hole in the starting lineup at the number one wide receiver position—which number two wide receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster is gearing himself up to fill on his own, coming off a Pro Bowl season in 2018 in which he put up some of the best numbers in franchise history by any player other than Brown at wide receiver.