Broncos rookie Omar Bolden prepared to gain from pain - Out of one of the worst experiences a college football player can experience, Omar Bolden emerged with a new, and entirely positive, perspective. Bolden could have left Arizona State with a fifth year of eligibility remaining to enter the NFL draft in 2011. Instead, the popular and talented cornerback called a news conference to announce he wanted one more year with the Sun Devils. Read more from the Denver Post >>>>
Broncos sign Steven Johnson, undrafted LB from Kansas, with $12,000 bonus - If money is any indication, the most coveted of the Broncos’ undrafted rookies is linebacker Steven Johnson. The former Kansas Jayhawk received a $12,000 signing bonus, highest among the 13 undrafted rookies the Broncos acquired after the April 26-28 draft. Read more from the Denver Post >>>>
Nunnely Retires - After 36 years of coaching football — including 17 in the NFL — Wayne Nunnely is retiring from the game. “It has been an absolute dream come true for me to coach for 36 years,” Nunnely said in a statement. “I am so thankful for all the opportunities I have been given to have a positive impact on others through the game of football. More than anything, I am proud of the accomplishments of the teams and players I have been so privileged to work with over the years.” Read more from Denver Broncos >>>>
Predicting the Final Denver Broncos’ 2012 53-Man Roster - Determining the final 53-man roster for an NFL team is as much an art as it is a science for executives. It is nearly impossible to predict who will flash in camp and who will falter, anymore than it is possible to predict that a player like Elvis Dumervil could tear a pectoral and be out for the season. Read more from Bleacher Report >>>>
Denver Broncos: 6 Reasons Peyton Manning Won’t Dominate the AFC West - The Denver Broncos will not walk over their opponents in the AFC West this season because the team that Peyton Manning is playing for in 2012 is very similar to the Colts team that was the worst in the league last year. Read more from Bleacher Report >>>>
Little Known Broncos Facts: The Canadian Connection - Last fall, MHR’s Colby Mueller convinced several of us to watch some games from the Canadian Football League. Colby currently resides in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, but he grew up in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. Hence his enthusiastic fandom for the Saskatchewan Roughriders. It was entertaining to watch CFL football, given some of the interesting differences between CFL and NFL games — such as, the referees using bright orange flags instead of yellow ones and some of the looser rules regarding men in motion. But I’ll let you discover those differences for yourself, should you be so inclined. Read more from Mile High Report >>>>
Peyton Manning: A history of success with wide receivers - It’s every NFL coach’s dream to get a quarterback that helps turn good wide receivers into great wide receivers, as that one key player can be the difference between a coach spending a long tenure on the sidelines or watching the games on Direct TV each Sunday. Take New England quarterback Tom Brady, for example, who has made Wes Welker and Deon Branch, two wide receivers who had little to no hype surrounding them, successful in the NFL. Peyton Manning is another example of a quarterback who is capable of transforming his wide receivers; his history with the Indianapolis Colts speaks for itself in that regard. Read more from Bronco Talk >>>>
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