After picking seven players in the 2025 NFL draft and signing 15 undrafted free agents, the Denver Broncos will monitor players invited to a rookie minicamp tryout next week. Once the dust settles after rookie camp, the team’s roster should be mostly settled until mid-June.
Following Denver’s mandatory minicamp (June 10-12), the United Football League will hold its championship game on June 14. Once the UFL season wraps up, players from the league will be permitted to sign with NFL clubs.
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Broncos general manager George Paton noted in March that roster elevations never stop.
“[Y]ou know when you’re sitting in my chair, you’re always trying to build every day,” Paton said on March 31. “Even when the draft’s over, it’s like, ‘UFL, what’s going on there?’ Listen… Dondrea Tillman. So it just never ends, and it never ends with the scouts. You’re always building. You can never get complacent in this job or you’re going to get passed up.”
Paton specifically mentioned Tillman because Denver signed him last year after the UFL season concluded. Tillman went on to record five sacks in his first season in the NFL, and the Broncos re-signed him this spring.
Before landing Tillman, Denver also signed long snapper Mitchell Fraboni after the 2022 USFL season and quarterback Ben DiNucci following the 2023 XFL season. So that makes it three years in a row that the Broncos have landed free agents after the spring football season. We’ll see if that trend continues in 2025.
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This article originally appeared on Broncos Wire: Denver Broncos: George Paton will target UFL free agents next