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Soon-to-be Raiders receiver Antonio Brown was due to earn zero dollar and zero cents of guaranteed money over the next three years. Instead JuJu Smith-Schuster Jersey White , he’ll get $30 million, fully guaranteed.Per a source with knowledge of the terms of the looming contract restructuring, the Raiders will guarantee $30 million of Brown’s future payout. Also, the total amount he was due to earn through 2021 will increase from $38.925 million to $50.125 million.There are multiple ways to assess the new deal. Brown will make $16.7 million per year in hard dollars over the next three seasons. But when the $11.2 million is added to the $68 million in new money that Brown received two years ago from the Steelers https://www.thesteelerslockerroom.com/authentic-juju-smith-schuster-jersey , the new-money average on the entire deal spikes from $17 million to $19.8 million.Brown also can trigger $4 million in incentives, which would be paid in 2020 and 2021. If earned, he’ll receive an extra $15.2 million over the next three years, and the new-money average of the deal he signed with Pittsburgh in 2017 will be $20.8 million.Regardless of how the cat is skinned T. J. Watt Jersey , Brown had made $33.79 million over the last two years and he was due to make $38.925 million, with no guarantees. That number has now gone up by $11.2 million, with $30 million of the $50.125 million he’ll make over the next three seasons now fully guaranteed.It’s not a bad outcome for a guy who was tied to the Steelers for three more seasons, and who presumably had no leverage to either demand a trade or finagle a new deal. Mike Tomlin says letting Antonio Brown and Le'Veon Bell leave for two other teams is just part of the business of football.Asked if there’s any disappointment that the Steelers couldn’t make it work with two great players Jerome Bettis Jersey White , Tomlin answered, “Tomlin continued that the Steelers will move on without them and be fine.“We as an organization have moved on,” Tomlin said. “I think they as professionals have moved on. We’re excited about the formulation of our team for ’19. We appreciate the contributions that they gave us when they were part of us James Conner Jersey White , but the reality is they are no longer that, so we’re focused on the guys that we work with.”That’s about all that Tomlin can say at this point. The Steelers are going to have to move on, without two players who were once their top two offensive playmakers.