POWERED BY DENVER BRONCOS (2015 Record: 12-4) ROSTER REPORT UPDATE - February 24, 2016
OFFSEASON HEADLINES VETERAN BUILDING BLOCKS
⋆⋆ BLUE ELITE / ⋆ RED TIER II STARTER Age FA Year 2016 Cap Hit Snaps Front Office Top Priority to sign Von Miller to Long-Term Extension - Miller ⋆⋆ WR Demaryius Thomas 28 2020 $15,200,000 950 likely to be Franchised (est. $14 ⋆⋆ CB Chris Harris Jr. 26 2020 $9,000,000 1096 million) before deal finalized ⋆⋆ WR Emmanuel Sanders 28 2017 $6,000,000 872 CB Aqib Talib 29 2020 $9,968,750 1008 Quarterback Transition from Manning ⋆⋆ to Osweiler (UFA) not official until ⋆ OLB DeMarcus Ware 33 2017 $11,666,668 414 new deal is reached - Manning ⋆ 34DE Derek Wolfe 25 2020 $6,800,000 671 retirement decision not yet public ⋆ SS T.J. Ward 29 2018 $5,750,000 726 Future Running Back in Denver? ⋆ FS Darian Stewart 27 2017 $2,750,000 872 Hillman (UFA) and Anderson (RFA) 0 0 0 0 0 $0 0 both 2016 Free Agents 0 0 0 0 0 $0 0
2016 FREE AGENTS TOP DRAFT PICKS UNDER ROOKIE DEAL BLUE ELITE / RED TRAITS Age Snaps Rating ↑ ASCENDING / Z TIER II / ZZ TIER III Age FA Year 2016 Cap Hit Snaps OLB Von Miller 26 860 ⋆⋆ ↑ CB Bradley Roby 23 2018 $1,896,144 644 QB Brock Osweiler 25 521 ⋆ ↑ RB C.J. Anderson ### RFA $0 633 DT Malik Jackson 26 851 ⋆ ↑ DT Sylvester Williams 27 2017 $2,412,375 550 ILB Danny Trevathan 25 759 ⋆ Z OLB Shane Ray 22 2019 $2,072,476 352 OT Ryan Harris 30 1022 0 ZZ WR Cody Latimer 23 2018 $1,011,450 191 OG Evan Mathis 34 821 0 ZZ RT Michael Schofield 25 2018 $742,300 883 TE Vernon Davis 32 632 0 ZZ G/C Max Garcia 24 2019 $611,423 552 RB Ronnie Hillman 24 527 0 ZZ OT Ty Sambrailo 23 2019 $874,081 215 SS David Bruton 28 497 0 0 0 0 0 0 $0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $0 0
STARTERS LOST ROSTER BUBBLE CUT/TRADE/RESTRUCTURE LIST UFA/RELEASE/TRADE Age FA/Cut New Team XX RELEASE? / X RESTRUCTURE Age FA Year 2016 Cap Hit Snaps 0 0 0 0 0 X OT Ryan Clady 29 2018 $10,100,000 IR 0 0 0 0 0 X RG Louis Vasquez 28 2017 $6,750,000 889 0 0 0 0 0 X QB Peyton Manning 39 2017 $21,500,000 603 0 0 0 0 0 XX TE Owen Daniels 33 2018 $4,500,000 844 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $0 0
ROSTERWATCH INSIDER SALARY CAP TEAM NEEDS OUR TAKE - FEBRUARY 2016 $11,806,411 Offensive Tackle Pending Peyton Manning's retirement announcement, when his AVAILABLE CAP SPACE contract comes off the books the Broncos will save $21 million Running Back in Cap Space, enough room to sign Brock Osweiler to an OFF-DEF SPLIT Tight End extension - Von Miller is expected to be Franchise Tagged ($14 million) before March 1st; new contract not expected until 57% 43% Guard/Center Summer (est. +$17m/year) - Malik Jackson, Danny Trevathan, and Ronnie Hillman to consider open market - Emmanuel OFFENSE DEFENSE Middle Linebacker Sanders (FA in 2017) due for new deal (NFL Avg - 54%) (NFL Avg - 46%) Defensive Tackle