{"id":238232,"date":"2025-07-26T18:07:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T18:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/238232\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T18:07:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T18:07:11","slug":"young-broncos-linebacker-carted-off-at-training-camp-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/238232\/","title":{"rendered":"Young Broncos linebacker carted off at training camp practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Denver Broncos may have been hit with their first bad news of training camp on Saturday,<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MaseDenver\/status\/1949162376441262326?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1949162376441262326%7Ctwgr%5E26022632459c1fc47f09ed73ace0c53a2e97aa99%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fdenversports.com%2Fwp-admin%2Fpost.php%3Fpost%3D2123469action%3Dedit\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> when backup linebacker<\/a> Drew Sanders was carted off the field.<\/p>\n<p>Sanders, 24, figures to be one of the key backups behind inside linebackers Alex Singleton and Dre Greenlaw. Singleton is entering his fourth season in Denver, while Greenlaw was just added this offseason after six standout years in San Francisco. Along with Sanders behind them are Justin Strnad and Levelle Bailey, all likely to factor in for Vance Joseph\u2019s group.<\/p>\n<p>Coming out of Arkansas as a third-round pick, Sanders started four games in his rookie year and played in 17. But a torn Achilles in April of last year kept him sidelined until the last few weeks of the season in 2025. The <a href=\"https:\/\/denversports.com\/nfl\/denver-broncos\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Broncos<\/a> were one of the better defenses in football last year and have only really added to that unit in the offseason, but they need to stay healthy. Sean Payton pointed out at the beginning of workouts that the team was remarkably healthy \u2014 now they\u2019ll hope to get good news about Sanders.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MaseDenver\/status\/1949168091772170400\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Payton said after practice<\/a> that the injury is not an Achilles, like he suffered last year \u2014 but that was the only information the coach shared.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Sean Payton speaks about Drew Sanders after he was carted off the field. Mentions they don\u2019t think it\u2019s an achilles injury. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BroncosCountry?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">#BroncosCountry<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3Yvkp2qmqj\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/3Yvkp2qmqj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Denver Sports 104.3 (@DenSports1043) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DenSports1043\/status\/1949168919232860634?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">July 26, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Drew Sanders left the Broncos practice field on a cart.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Andrew Mason (@MaseDenver) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MaseDenver\/status\/1949162376441262326?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">July 26, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Injuries always have a way of striking the position where you\u2019re the most vulnerable, don\u2019t they \u2026<\/p>\n<p>Two starters coming off significant injuries at ILB and now Drew Sanders, a reserve for whom the Broncos had high hopes, carted off at today\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BroncosCamp?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">#BroncosCamp<\/a> practice.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Andrew Mason (@MaseDenver) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MaseDenver\/status\/1949163675329479034?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">July 26, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story, we will have updates here<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Shapalicious\" data-show-count=\"false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Follow @Shapalicious<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/denversports.com\/daily\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-perfmatters-preload=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/DenverSportsEmail-300x250-1.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"mobile-signup\"\/>\t&#13;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" data-perfmatters-preload=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/DenverSportsEmail-830x100-1.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"desktop-signup\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Denver Broncos may have been hit with their first bad news of training camp on Saturday, when&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238233,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2062],"tags":[232,3658,231,258,2426,7,6,3657],"class_list":{"0":"post-238232","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-denver-broncos","8":"tag-broncos","9":"tag-colorado-denvers-sports-station-104-3-the-fan","10":"tag-denver","11":"tag-denver-broncos","12":"tag-denverbroncos","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-sports-radio-104-3-the-fan-denver"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114920872085325237","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238232","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=238232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}