Mike Mayock didn’t believe Antonio Brown would be traded to Oakland. Oh, the Raiders general manager had tried to make the deal, but on the night of March 8, it didn’t look good.
“It was not getting done,” Mayock told NBC Sports’ Peter King in his Football Morning in America column. “Actually, I went to bed Friday night and the deal was off the table.”
Mayock had trade terms struck with the Steelers – a third-round and a fifth-round draft pick would go to Pittsburgh – but the wide receiver wanted more money before deciding to go to Oakland, and the sides seemingly were at an impasse on that issue.