Some significant happenings today with the Denver Broncos conducting a simple restructure on Jaylen Waddle’s contract to keep his 2026 salary cap number reasonable.
Broncos daily recap
The big news today was salary cap related. So it turns out that salary cap hit was coming Denver’s way after all and they implemented a simple restructure to clear up the cap hit by converting it into a signing bonus. Here are the relevant tweets on the move from today.
Under the radar
The Kansas City Chiefs breaking the bank for a 37-year-old tight end is something I am perfectly fine with. Travis Kelce has destroyed the Broncos many times over his illustrious career, but I am not as worried about his threat in 2026 as I may have been in 2022.
The FEED happenings
Sticking with the salary cap theme of this daily recap, MileHighSalute found this ESPN piece on highest paid players in the NFL and how the Broncos don’t have a single guy on the list. Nik Bonitto made it, but they put him in the wrong position. If they had put him in as an edge rusher, he would not have made the cut.
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Broncos history
Comparing bad to really bad.
The post-Manning era was pretty brutal. For us fans under the age of 50, we never lived through a worse time to be a fan of the Denver Broncos.
For a six-year span between 2017-2022, the Broncos earned an underwhelming 35-63 record. A whooping .357 win percentage. That was max pain if there ever was… or so my youngish life experience would have suggested. Here are a couple of other six-year spans in Broncos history to think about:
- 1960-1965: 22-59-3 (.262 win %)
- 1966-1971: 26-55-3 (.310 win %)
So as bad as that stretch was for us modern day Broncos fans, just remember to pour one out for the homies who stayed true to their fanhood from 1960-1975. They were true believers through and through.
For those of you who rooted for Denver back in those years, what were your fondest memories of those tough seasons?
