NFL Twitter convinced A.J. Brown is gone after Eagles owner's comments
Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie gave the safest response possible when asked about the A.J. Brown trade speculation.
Philadelphia Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie probably didn't intend to stoke the fires of the A. J. Brown trade rumors, but that's exactly what happened after he spoke on the situation during the NFL annual league meeting.
The three-time All-Pro wide receiver is believed to be a post-June 1 trade candidate, when the team could avoid a massive dead cap charge to make such a move. Brown clearly wasn't happy on the team last season, despite winning a Super Bowl in 2024. In only a year, the Eagles went from being on the mountaintop to getting bounced in the wild-card round of the playoffs by an undermanned San Francisco 49ers team.
General manager Howie Roseman called Brown an "Eagle," but he never directly shut down the trade talk involving the star wide receiver. In fact, he spoke more in the present tense when it came to Brown, which is the same way that Lurie chose to address the matter . "Howie kept saying A.
J. 's an Eagle, and he's definitely—look, I just will say this, DeVonta [Smith] and A. J.