Former Illini WR Pat Bryant is generating hype ahead of his rookie season. The 3rd round pick plays for the Denver Broncos, and pre-season camp has gone well so far. <\/p>\n
A top Denver Broncos beat writer, Zac Stevens, wrote on X, “Pat Bryant continues to prove he\u2019s legit. Gets open. Catches the ball. Smart. He\u2019s going to play a lot this year.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bryant is 6’2 and 204 pounds; in college, he was used as “home-run” threat and would catch deep shots. <\/p>\n
In 2024, he tied Illinois’ single season touchdown record with 10. And was a major reason Illinois went 9-3 in the regular season and went to the Citrus Bowl. <\/p>\n
Bryant isn’t the fastest player, but he’s physical and had a big catch radius. Even if a defender was closely on him, Bryant had a knack for making plays. <\/p>\n
Now, he’s on an improving Denver Broncos team, who went 10-7 last season and made the playoffs. <\/p>\n
They’re led by head coach Sean Payton, the former Super Bowl winning coach with the New Orleans Saints and considered a strong offensive mind.<\/p>\n
And quarterback Bo Nix, the 2nd year player from Oregon who threw for 29 touchdowns last season — the 6th most in the NFL. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Illini WR Pat Bryant is generating hype ahead of his rookie season. The 3rd round pick plays…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243198,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2062],"tags":[925,232,231,258,2426,7,6,1011,48936,8345,1813,48937,46433],"class_list":{"0":"post-243197","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-denver-broncos","8":"tag-bo-nix","9":"tag-broncos","10":"tag-denver","11":"tag-denver-broncos","12":"tag-denverbroncos","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-pat-bryant","16":"tag-pre-season-camp","17":"tag-rookie-season","18":"tag-sean-payton","19":"tag-touchdown-record","20":"tag-zac-stevens"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114931972483411432","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243197","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=243197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}