SB Nation’s Eagles community, Bleeding Green Nation, is asking the question: Did the Eagles get fair value in the Sheldon Brown trade?
Did The Eagles Get Fair Value For Sheldon Brown?
The answer, explained nicely by BGN, is yes.
They use the Antonio Cromartie trade as a baseline, which was a third round pick.
I don’t think anyone can say that in terms of trade value, Sheldon Brown is worth more than Antonio Cromartie. The youth alone makes Cromartie more valueable in terms of a trade, but his size and superior “glamour stats(INTS)” certainly help as well. If the base value here is Cromartie at a 3rd round value, then that would make Sheldon’s value at least a notch below. When you consider that a trade for Brown is also probably contingent on a big new contract... that might push his value down a bit as well.
What complicates things is that this was a multi-player, multi-pick trade. LB Chris Gocong was involved. BGN speculates that Gocong may not have drawn a fifth round pick on his own so Brown’s value, in this trade, might have been slightly more than a fourth round pick.
While BGN seemingly approves of the trade, they do question who will fill Brown’s role. The Eagles haven’t been afraid to ship off veteran players because they generally have someone in place to replace them.
Letting Sheldon go is in some ways like letting Dawkins go. If the team thinks that it was their to leave that’s fine... but typically the team has a guy lined up to take the place of the veteran and in these two instances they don’t seem to have done that.
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