{"id":707817,"date":"2026-06-01T13:09:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T13:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/707817\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T13:09:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T13:09:08","slug":"a-j-brown-trade-talks-between-patriots-eagles-entering-critical-phase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/707817\/","title":{"rendered":"A.J. Brown trade talks between Patriots, Eagles entering critical phase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">After months of speculation, a pivotal deadline for the New England Patriots and their efforts to acquire wide receiver A.J. Brown has arrived. As soon as the clock hits 4 p.m. ET on June 1, the cap ramifications of a trade would be more palatable to the Philadelphia Eagles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">This means that the Patriots trading for Brown could happen as early as Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Patriots and Eagles have been involved in on-again, off-again talks about the wide receiver going back to last season. And while there has been speculation about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patspulpit.com\/new-england-patriots-rumors\/129049\/aj-brown-trade-talks-eagles-update\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">how close the two sides have actually come<\/a> so far, the common belief in NFL circles is that New England will ultimately invest a first-round draft pick \u2014 likely in 2028 \u2014 to facilitate the move.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The asking price has not been the primary holdup thus far, however. As mentioned above, Brown has not been moved yet for salary cap reasons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Due to the option-heavy structure of his contract, the Eagles would have had to take on a $43.5 million dead money charge this season had they traded Brown before June 1. Waiting for that deadline to pass, that cap number will be spread over this and next season; $16.4 million would hit the cap in 2026, with the remaining $27.1 million hitting Philadelphia\u2019s books in 2027.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">From a Patriots perspective, taking on Brown would result in a salary cap hit of $6.79 million. They would acquire his $1.3 million base salary and $5.49 million option bonus for 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Trading for Brown would be the latest major wide receiver move for New England this offseason. The Super Bowl runner-ups previously signed Romeo Doubs to a four-year, $68 million contract in free agency, while also cutting their top receiver last year, Stefon Diggs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After months of speculation, a pivotal deadline for the New England Patriots and their efforts to acquire wide&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":707818,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[49,48,257206,55795,82],"class_list":["post-707817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-new-england-patriots-offseason-coverage","tag-new-england-patriots-rumors","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=707817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/707818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}