{"id":20417,"date":"2025-05-03T11:14:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T11:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/20417\/"},"modified":"2025-05-03T11:14:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T11:14:09","slug":"up-next-for-broncos-front-office-are-ufl-free-agents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/20417\/","title":{"rendered":"Up next for Broncos&#8217; front office are UFL free agents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After picking <a href=\"https:\/\/broncoswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/broncos\/2025\/04\/28\/denver-broncos-2025-nfl-draft-class\/83332736007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:seven players;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">seven players<\/a> in the 2025 NFL draft and signing <a href=\"https:\/\/broncoswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/broncos\/2025\/04\/26\/denver-broncos-2025-undrafted-free-agent-tracker\/83259152007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:15 undrafted free agents;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">15 undrafted free agents<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/broncoswire.usatoday.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Denver Broncos;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Denver Broncos<\/a> will monitor players invited to a <a href=\"https:\/\/broncoswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/broncos\/2025\/04\/30\/denver-broncos-news-23-players-invited-to-rookie-minicamp\/83378267007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:rookie minicamp tryout;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">rookie minicamp tryout<\/a> next week. Once the dust settles after rookie camp, the team&#8217;s roster should be mostly settled until mid-June.<\/p>\n<p>Following Denver&#8217;s mandatory minicamp (<a href=\"https:\/\/broncoswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/broncos\/2025\/04\/29\/denver-broncos-offseason-schedule-2025\/83330227007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:June 10-12;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">June 10-12<\/a>), 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.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/denver-broncos\/332\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Broncos;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Broncos<\/a> general manager George Paton noted in March that roster elevations never stop.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Y]ou know when you\u2019re sitting in my chair, you\u2019re always trying to build every day,&#8221; Paton said on March 31. &#8220;Even when the draft\u2019s over, it\u2019s like, \u2018UFL, what\u2019s going on there?\u2019 Listen\u2026 Dondrea Tillman. So it just never ends, and it never ends with the scouts. You\u2019re always building. You can never get complacent in this job or you\u2019re going to get passed up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>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 <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/article\/broncos-gem-pass-rusher-ufl-090834980.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:re-signed him;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">re-signed him<\/a> this spring.<\/p>\n<p>Before landing Tillman, Denver also signed long snapper\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/broncos-roster-series-no-48-110027310.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Mitchell Fraboni;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mitchell Fraboni<\/a> after the 2022 USFL season and quarterback <a href=\"https:\/\/broncoswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/broncos\/2023\/05\/14\/denver-broncos-news-xfl-quarterback-ben-dinucci-signs-with-team\/79159719007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Ben DiNucci;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Ben DiNucci<\/a> 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&#8217;ll see if that trend continues in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/broncoswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/broncos\/2019\/08\/03\/denver-broncos-famous-fans-celebrities-include-paul-george-amy-adams\/79446413007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:These 25 celebrities are Broncos fans;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">These 25 celebrities are Broncos fans<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Broncos Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/broncoswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/broncos\/2025\/05\/03\/denver-broncos-target-ufl-free-agents\/83410016007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Denver Broncos: George Paton will target UFL free agents next;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Denver Broncos: George Paton will target UFL free agents next<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After picking seven players in the 2025 NFL draft and signing 15 undrafted free agents, the Denver Broncos&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20418,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2062],"tags":[6734,232,231,258,2426,9916,7,1272,3903,6,3243,2719,9789],"class_list":{"0":"post-20417","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-denver-broncos","8":"tag-ben-dinucci","9":"tag-broncos","10":"tag-denver","11":"tag-denver-broncos","12":"tag-denverbroncos","13":"tag-dondrea-tillman","14":"tag-football","15":"tag-george-paton","16":"tag-mitchell-fraboni","17":"tag-nfl","18":"tag-rookie-minicamp","19":"tag-undrafted-free-agents","20":"tag-united-football-league"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114443614005806184","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}