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REPORT: Braylon Edwards to Giants?

By ArtieFufkin

ESPN Radio 950 in Philadelphia is reporting that the Giants and Browns have agreed on a trade for WR Braylon Edwards.

According to the report, the Giants will get Edwards, and the Browns get the Giants’ 1st & 5th round picks in 2009.

Please note: at this point, this is nothing more than a rumor.  If it was fact, it would have been posted  by credible news sources all over the web by now.  So, we’ll refrain from commenting further until it’s confirmed.

The report also stated that a press conference has been scheduled for tomorrow morning, so we’ll see how much of this is truth, and how much is just hot air coming out of Philly radio.

UPDATE: This report is looking more and more like BS.

Since there haven’t been any more substantive reports on this story yet, I’m guessing it’s not true.  Well, at least the part about the deal being done and announced tomorrow. But it was reported on ESPN Radio in Philly.  The guys at BigBlueInteractive.com have been all over this today. One guess as to where this story came from is that the Browns leaked the info to someone in Philly, in an effort to get the Eagles to enter the bidding and drive the price up for the Giants. Someone with the Eagles then leaked it to radio, and the internet caught fire.

But we know the Giants & Browns have been talking about a deal for Edwards, and a 1st and 5th is probably in the ball park.  Something like this could easily happen prior to the draft, if not sooner.  Stay tuned …

APRIL 8 UPDATE – ESPN 950 didn’t actually “report” anything about Edwards trade

According to ProFootballTalk.com‘s Mike Florio, producers at Philadelphia’s ESPN 950 claim that “drive-time host Mike Missanelli was merely commenting on a video speculating on the situation, and that ESPN 950 isn’t “reporting” anything about a possible trade.”

The piece goes on to propose 2 major “hurdles” in a trade to the Giants going through … namely that Cleveland wants at least a 1st and a 3rd, and that Edwards wants a big-time contract.  But it’s possible that Edwards is pricing himself out of Cleveland with his contract demands, and trying to force their hand to trade him.  Also, at this point, we’ve heard the Giants are still potentially looking at deals for Anquan Boldin and Ocho Cinco.

Seems like a lot of smoke … but where there’s smoke, there’s usually fire.