Big news coming out this afternoon that TE Rob Gronkowski is being traded to play with his stepfather Tom Brady on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Let’s Examine the deal from all angles.

From a pure football standpoint, this is huge. Even if Gronk lumbers up and down the field like Paul Bunyan, he is still a massive target in the middle and a huge safety net for Brady. He has always been a willing blocker and his mere presence stacks an already loaded receiving core. Gronk appeared to lose quite a bit of playing weight while working on those pelvic thrusts with his smokeshow girlfriend, but let’s assume he comes back close to normal playing shape, he’s still a guy who can own the seam and catch anything in sight.

From a fantasy standpoint, it makes owning anyone other than Brady hard to trust week in and week out to deliver consistent results. Sure WRs Godwin and Evans are still top options and each will have massive weeks, but they will be drafted in a spot to be your WR1 and may not be able to deliver that consistently with so many mouths to feed. Same for the TE spot. Along with Gronk, the Buccaneers have OJ Howard and Cameron Brate at TE who have both shown flashes of fantasy relevance. Perhaps they deal Howard during the draft for more picks, but for now, it will be hard to trust any as more than an top 6 TE on a weekly basis for fantasy purposes.

And what happens with the WWE 24/7 title? Gronk won the 24/7 title during Part 2 of the grandaddy of em all, Wrestlemania, earlier this March and is still the current champion. Forget about Michael Jordan, Bo Jackson, and Deion Sanders, Gronk becomes the first professional athlete to achieve titles in both sports. First Vince McMahon has to fold the XFL due to the COVID-19 outbreak, and now he loses his party-machine, 24/7 champ? Someone pass the man a beer Stone Cold style, he needs it…