In case you haven’t heard - in which case, read up on NFL news, you’ll never win your league slacking off - Braylon Edwards was traded to the Jets for a couple players nobody cares about and an unnamed pick.

Midseason trades rarely happen in the NFL, especially of skill position players, and especially of talented skill position players.  There’s very little precedent for this sort of thing.  Accordingly, Edwards’ fantasy owners are collectively freaking out right now.  But what does it mean?

Well, that’s a hard call.  There are upsides and downsides for Edwards in New York.

The upside, of course, is that he’s no longer on the Browns.  Let’s face it; Cleveland is downright awful.  Jerry Rice and Tim Brown wouldn’t have much luck with either Anderson or Quinn lobbing wobbly passes in their general direction.

Much has been said about Edwards’ inability to catch the ball.  And a lot of that is justified.  But at the same time all the blame can’t be placed in his hands (insert joke here) since many of the drops were poorly-thrown, uncatchable passes.  Having a competent QB in Sanchez should, in theory, help that.

Of course the Detroit Lions were pretty bad last year too.  In fact it’s mathematically impossible to be worse.  The Cowboys, meanwhile, were pretty good.  Say what you will about Romo but he does throw a nice pass, and he did have quite a bit more experience than Sanchez has.

So the same upsides I described above applied to Roy Williams, if not moreso.  And he got significantly worse.  He put up 232 yards in four starts with Detroit and 198 yards in seven starts with Dallas.  That’s a difference of 30 yards per game, from bad to worse.

So the verdict?  If you have Edwards, and there’s any reasonable option on the free agent wire, dump Edwards right now.  But keep an eye on his performance.  Odds are nobody will pick him up and there’s always the remote, outside chance he actually plays well in New York, and if he does you’ll want to get him back.