had made that happen already<\/a>. He didn\u2019t want to boost his bank account. He told Marion, then Texas\u2019 passing-game coordinator, that\u00a0I gotta help my mom out.<\/p>\n\u201cI just kinda told him, like, \u2018Bro, you gotta just turn it up a level,’\u201d Marion recalled. \u201c\u2018Like, you gotta be different, like, if you want to take care of your mom, like, you gotta do some things and become different.\u2019<\/p>\n
He did all those things. I mean, he was just willing to do whatever it took to make sure his mom was okay.\u201d<\/p>\n
Three years later, a 23-year-journey for Barron has come full-circle, as the Broncos have officially signed their 2025 first-round pick to his rookie deal, a source confirmed to The Denver Post Tuesday night. He has always been goal-oriented, a practice taught to him by Techonia; his primary goal throughout his life in football has been to retire her, a single mother who worked multiple jobs to support him and his five siblings.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe knows this is his golden ticket,\u201d Barron\u2019s longtime trainer Bernard Blake said, \u201cto be able to show her how much she means to him.\u201d<\/p>\n
He\u2019s officially put pen to paper, now, on his first NFL deal, after Denver took the Texas standout with the 20th pick in April\u2019s NFL Draft. It\u2019s a standard four-year deal worth $18 million in total, with a $9.5 million signing bonus.<\/p>\n
A hint of intrigue built as Barron remained unsigned as time ticked away before training camp, with rookies set to report Wednesday. It seemed highly unlikely, though \u2014 even as Barron was one of just two first-round picks left unsigned on Tuesday morning \u2014 that the Broncos would let him dangle. He\u2019ll report for camp Wednesday as a major piece of coordinator Vance Joseph\u2019s defense for the forseeable future, his versatility opening a number of different paths in Denver\u2019s secondary.<\/p>\n
\u201cGreat guy,\u201d Broncos third-round pick Pat Bryant said of Barron during rookie minicamp. \u201cIf you watch him move, very smooth, great feet. And I can honestly see him in any position on the field.<\/p>\n
So, you know what I\u2019m saying, a guy like that with those aspects, those speed, I can see him thriving very well in the league.\u201d<\/p>\n
Denver\u2019s now officially inked all of its 2025 draftees except running back RJ Harvey, who\u2019s caught in the midst of a league-wide holding pattern between agents and organizations over guaranteed money for second-round picks.<\/p>\n
Want more Broncos news? Sign up for the Broncos Insider to get all our NFL analysis.<\/a><\/p>\nOriginally Published: July 15, 2025 at 8:33 PM MDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 2022, when the concept of NIL was in its infant and amorphous stages, Jahdae Barron went to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46063,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2062],"tags":[232,231,258,2426,7,1006,929,926,6,1011,9,2832],"class_list":{"0":"post-211274","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-denver-broncos","8":"tag-broncos","9":"tag-denver","10":"tag-denver-broncos","11":"tag-denverbroncos","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-jahdae-barron","14":"tag-latest-headlines","15":"tag-more-broncos-news","16":"tag-nfl","17":"tag-pat-bryant","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-vance-joseph"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114862286845457144","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211274","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=211274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}