But those 25 point games are gonna hurt your chances at getting a higher pick.Just because you own Brown and are rebuilding doesn't mean you have to trade him today.
A couple 25 point weeks and you'll likely get more than settling and selling low now.
I do get what your saying but I’m not really sure Browns value can really go up anymore, I mean he’s already pretty much valued as the #1 wr in football all things considered. You would think people would jump all over a chance to trade for him but that’s not completely true. I ended up starting a rebuild last year after week 3 because my outlook was not very good and made AB available for trade and got 3 offers and they really weren’t that good. Ended up “settling” for a guaranteed early 2018 first round pick (ended up being 1.4 but was the 1.1 until the last 2 weeks of the season), Devin Funchess and Carlos Henderson. While I wanted more, keeping AB only would have hurt my chances at making my own first round pick very early. By trading AB my own first round pick ended up being 1.1. Funchess started putting up points and I was able to trade him in a package to a guy trying to make playoffs for dalvin Cook. I ended up getting tyreek hill in the offseason for the 1.4 pick and some other little stuff (while the 1.4 pick still seemed very valuable instead of the jumbled mess it is right now) and found the one owner who liked Henderson before he skipped camp and got Mahomes in a trade involving him.
So basically my point is yes AB is/could be worth more but in the long run sometimes you just have to take the deal that makes you the happiest or the best at that time and it may turn out decent at the end.