Eagles GM had the same response to every A.J. Brown trade question

Philadelphia Eaglesgeneral manager Howie Roseman does not live under a rock. Hesaid as muchduring theNFL's annual league meetings.

So Roseman knows how much interest there is in a rumoredA.J. Browntrade. As a result, he came to the league meetings in Phoenix prepared. Roseman had a stock answer for every question about the possibility of the Eagles' star wide receivermoving on in a trade.

"My answer to any question on A.J. Brown is A.J. Brown is a member of the Eagles," Roseman said during a media availability session on March 29. "From my perspective, anything you ask me about A.J. Brown, I'm going to go right back to that answer. But I understand the interest. I put on TV and I see that there's interest, but my answer is A.J. Brown is a member of thePhiladelphia Eagles."

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3. Arizona Cardinals – David Bailey, OLB/DE, Texas Tech

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> 4. Tennessee Titans – Sonny Styles, LB, Ohio State

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> 5. New York Giants – Jeremiyah Love, RB, Notre Dame

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> 6. Cleveland Browns – Monroe Freeling, OT, Georgia

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> 7. Washington Commanders – Caleb Downs, S, Ohio State

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> 8. New Orleans Saints – Carnell Tate, WR, Ohio State

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> 9. Kansas City Chiefs – Rueben Bain Jr., DE, Miami (Fla.)

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> 10. Cincinnati Bengals – Dillon Thieneman, S, Oregon

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> 11. Miami Dolphins – Francis Mauigoa, OT/G, Miami (Fla.)

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> 12. Dallas Cowboys – Mansoor Delane, CB, LSU

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> 13. Los Angeles Rams (from Atlanta Falcons) – Makai Lemon, WR, USC

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> 15. Tampa Bay Buccaneers – Akheem Mesidor, DE, Miami (Fla.)

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> 16. Jets (from Indianapolis Colts) – Jordyn Tyson, WR, Arizona State

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> 17. Detroit Lions – Spencer Fano, OT/G, Utah

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> 18. Minnesota Vikings – Jermod McCoy, CB, Tennessee

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> 19. Carolina Panthers - Kenyon Sadiq, TE, Oregon

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> 21. Pittsburgh Steelers – Kadyn Proctor, OT/G, Alabama

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> 22. Los Angeles Chargers – T.J. Parker, DE/OLB, Clemson

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> 23. Philadelphia Eagles – Keldric Faulk, DE, Auburn

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> 24. Cleveland Browns – Omar Cooper Jr., WR, Indiana

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> 25. Chicago Bears – Emmanuel McNeil-Warren, S, Toledo

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> 26. Buffalo Bills – Cashius Howell, OLB, Texas A&M

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> 29. Kansas City Chiefs (from Los Angeles Rams) – Colton Hood, CB, Tennessee

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> 30. Miami Dolphins (from Denver Broncos) – Denzel Boston, WR, Washington

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> 32. Seattle Seahawks – Avieon Terrell, CB, Clemson

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A.J. Brown trade rumors date back to 2025 regular season

Trade rumors involving Brown have swirled since at least last year's trade deadline in early November. Philadelphia's Pro Bowl wide receiver publicly vented his frustrations with former Eagles offensive coordinator Kevin Patullo and how he deployed Brown – or rather, how he failed to do so effectively, in Brown's opinion – multiple times during the 2025 season.

Despite Brown's mid-season comments stirring up trade speculation, Philadelphia kept Brown through the trade deadline. Shortly after, the wideout had an on-field meeting with Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie, where he promised to stop airing his grievances publicly. Brown declined to speak to reporters for the remainder of the season after the meeting.

When the Eagles' season ended after a wild-card round game that included multiple drops by Brown, the trade rumor mill started spinning again. But Roseman seemed to quell the flames of more Brown trade rumors early in the offseason.

"It is hard to find great players in the NFL, and A.J. is a great player," Roseman said in January. "I think from my perspective, that's what we're going out and looking for when we go out here in free agency, in the draft, just trying to find great players who love football, and he's that guy."

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A.J. Brown trade rumors heated up in March

Yet trade rumors returned when NFL free agency began in March. Multiple NFL Media reporters indicated before the new league year that Roseman and the Eagles had received trade offers. The New England Patriots were among likely landing spots given Brown's relationship with head coach Mike Vrabel.

Other early March reports indicated Philadelphia was seeking a first-round pick and potentially more as compensation in a trade.

"If they don't get close to that point – or to that point – I don't think (Eagles general manager) Howie Roseman moves him," Garafolo said on March 5. "I think he keeps A.J. Brown in the fold. He's a really good player; he is highly valued inside that building."

The Eagles would need to eat an additional $20 million in dead cap if they traded Brown before June 1, for a total cap hit of $43.4 million. If Philadelphia waits until after June 1, they save $7 million in cap space and eats less than $17 million in dead cap, according to OverTheCap.

During the first few weeks of free agency, the Eaglessignedtwo wide receivers –Hollywood Brownand Elijah Moore – andre-signedtight endDallas Goedert. Roseman said the uncertainty around Brown's future with the team did not prevent him from making those moves to improve his "vision" for the roster.

According to OverTheCap, the Eagles still have $34.9 million in cap space. For now, Brown and his $23.4 million cap hit are still part of that equation.

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AJ Brown stats

• Games (starts): 15 (15)

• Receptions: 78

• Receiving yards: 1,003

• Yards per reception: 12.9

• Touchdowns: 7

• Games (starts): 105 (97)

• Receptions: 524

• Receiving yards: 8,029

• Yards per reception: 15.3

• Touchdowns: 56

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France probes possible Iran link after bomb attack foiled outside Bank of America

PARIS (AP) — French authorities are investigating a suspected link to Iran after thwarting a bomb attack outside a Bank of American building in Paris on the weekend, the interior minister said Monday.

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The authorities suspect there could be a link to Iran due to similarities to other recent attempted attacks in Europe which a pro-Iran group claimed responsibility for, French Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez said.

On Saturday morning, Paris police officers spotted two suspects carrying a shopping bag near the premises of the Bank of America in the 8th arrondissement of the French capital. Five suspects have been arrested, including two on Monday, and the national anti-terrorism prosecutor's office opened an investigation into alleged terrorism-related offenses.

Authorities are making a "direct link" with Iran because the "modus operandi is in every respect similar to actions that have been carried out inthe Netherlandsandin Belgium," Nuñez said on French radio RTL on Monday morning.

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In those cases there were claims by a pro-Iranian group that "linked them to the conflict" in the Middle-East, he said.

The group, known on Telegram under the name Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamia, which translates as the Islamic Movement of the Companions of the Right, also claimed responsibility foran attack last week in London, where four ambulances belonging to a Jewish charity were set on fire.

"Typically, intelligence services of this country (Iran) operate in this way: they use proxies, a series of subcontractors, often common criminals, to carry out highly targeted actions aimed at U.S. interests, the interests of the Jewish community, or Iranian opposition figures," Nuñez said.

Nuñez said French authorities have stepped up security around key personalities and sites since the United States and Israel launched their war against Iran on Feb. 28, including the personal protection of some figures from the Iranian opposition.

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No snow. No water. Restrictions grow across West as drought fears rise

FRISCO, CO ‒ Stretching out in their beach chairs as the temperature climbed toward 70 degrees, Seth and Renee McLaughlin watched their three kids play in the sand on what was supposed to be a family ski trip.

Booked last November, their spring break vacation to Colorado's mountains required a hard shift in plans following ahistorically warm and dry winter: Instead of zipping down the slopes, the couple watched their kids sift sand into colorful toy buckets on the shores of Lake Dillon.

"It's obviously frustrating. You want to go skiing, and usually we ski until May, and instead we're at the beach," said Seth McLaughlin, 44, a nonprofit consultant. "I feel bad for the folks who spent tens of thousands of dollars to come on vacation here."

The McLaughlins' ruined vacation is a harbinger of what climatologists say will be a dangerously dry summer across the West. In many areas, all-important snowfall has been half of normal, with even hotter, drier temperatures expected in the coming months.

Western water woes deepen, raising drought fears

Much of the nationis in a drought already, but the headwaters of the Colorado River is among the driest places, along with south Texas and all of Florida. Alarmed civic officials across the West have already begun ordering restrictions on watering lawns, cleaning cars and even whether restaurant patrons get served glasses of water.

"We are already assuming our yard is going to be dead this year," said Renee McLaughlin, 44, a physician assistant. "And we're talking to the kids about taking five-minute showers."

The McLaughlins live in a Colorado city that has not yet ordered water restrictions, but many neighboring communities have already begun implementing them. Some ski areas are also closing early due to the heat and lack of snow.

Longtime Western water expert Brad Udall said it's hard to put into words just how bad things are. He said the early ski area closures will likely be followed by ranchers selling off cattle, and then skies darkened by wildfire smoke as dry vegetation burns.

For more than two decades, Udall has been studying how climate change is altering the West's water resources. He said 2026 may go down as the worst year for Colorado River flows in recorded history.

"It's really grim. It's horrific," said Udall, a senior climate scientist at Colorado State University's Colorado Water Center. "The impacts are going to be everywhere, throughout the economy and personally. You will feel this personally as it happens."

Based on previous years, a water shortage across the West could have drastic implications for food prices as crops dry up and cattle go thirsty. It would also imperil tens of thousands of businesses that depend on industrial water use, and raise the risk of catastrophic wildfires.

Huge portions of the West areserved by the Colorado River, which starts high in the Rockies before flowing downstream through Lake Powell, Lake Mead outside Las Vegas, and ultimately into California.

Climate experts have long warned that climate change will make the West hotter and drier, and worry that what's happening now represents a long-term shift that could reshape how people live and work across Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico and Wyoming. Some water experts say Lake Powell could hit its lowest level ever later this summer.

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And the beach where the McLaughlins' kids were playing? That's at Lake Dillon, a key source of drinking water for millions of Colorado residents that today sits at less than 60% full. Under normal circumstances, melting snow would be refilling the reservoir. Instead, the water remains hundreds of feet from the shoreline, with docks stuck in the mud. Little water trickled in, even though it was 70 degrees.

Water restrictions and concerns in Colorado, Utah, Wyoming

∎ At Lake Powell, which straddles the Arizona-Utah line, workers are preparing to move the entire floating Bullfrog Marina across the shrinking lake to the Hall's Crossing area, where the water will stay deeper longer. Water managers are warning that Lake Powell's water levels this year could drop to its lowest recorded level since the lake began filling in the 1960s.

Lake Powell is filled by the Colorado River and uses its water to generate hydroelectricity for about 500,000 households across the Southwest. But if the Colorado Riverflows this year are as low as projected, the lake level could by this fall drop below what's known as "power pool," or the minimum level necessary to spin the turbines.

When it first opened, Lake Powell was big enough to warrant a 30-minute car ferry that shuttled vehicles between Hall's Crossing on the south and Bullfrog on the north, saving drivers two hours of travel time. The ferry no longer runs because the loading ramps are so far from the water's edge. Many of the lake's boat-launch ramps are hanging hundreds of feet above the water level, and workers are once again extending them to reach the new shoreline. Last year, about 3.7 million tourists visited Lake Powell.

∎ Salt Lake City officials, preparing for drought, have temporarily banned the opening of any large non-residential developments that consume significant amounts of water.

While the measure is aimed in part at halting Immigrations and Customs Enforcement officials from opening a 7,500-person detention facility, city leaders said it's simply irresponsible to permit large-scale water use at this time: "New large water users are particularly problematic due to Salt Lake City's worsening drought conditions and water conservation needs, which we are already taking action to address," Mayor Erin Mendenhall said in a statement. City and state officials are also considering ways to protect the long-shrinking Great Salt Lake.

At Mendenhall's orders, city facilities have been ordered to cut their water use by at least 10%, and residents and businesses have been asked to voluntarily conserve 10 million gallons.

∎ In Denver, residents havebeen told to hold off wateringtheir lawns until late May, even though temperatures have repeatedly been in the 80s across the city. The Denver Water Board on March 25 also restricted residential lawn watering to two days a week per house, down from three in normal years. Restaurants are only allowed to serve water to diners who specifically request it. And hotels cannot change sheets more often than four times a week, unless a guest requests it or the room turns over to a new customer.

Because Denver typically gets only about 15 inches of rain a year − Miami receives four times as much, in comparison − the city depends heavily on melting snow to fill reservoirs like Lake Dillon. Water board officials said they are adopting tough measures now to help avoid further problems next summer for their 1.5 million customers across the metro area.

"The conditions we are experiencing are unprecedented, and we need customers to save water to protect the supply we have right now," Nathan Elder, Denver Water's manager of water supply, said in a statement.

∎ In the northern Colorado city of Erie, officialswarned residents and businessesto halt any irrigation until early April, and they warned they could shut off water access to anyone caught wasting water on their lawns. Erie gets most of its water from melting snow that's piped across the Continental Divide, and that area saw unusually poor snow this winter.

"This is an extraordinary measure for an extremely precarious situation," city officials said in a March 20 announcement. "Demands are currently approaching 30% higher than usual at this time of year."

∎ In Wyoming, state officials have already told some water users to cut back to preserve supplies for the coming summer. And federal officials are expected to draw down one of the state's largest reservoirs, Flaming Gorge, to put water into Lake Powell during the hot summer months. State Engineer Brandon Gebhart warned some communities to prepare for not having adequate drinking water supplies in the coming months.

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