{"id":657107,"date":"2026-01-05T23:42:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T23:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/657107\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T23:42:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T23:42:13","slug":"broncos-promote-qb-sam-ehlinger-to-active-roster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/657107\/","title":{"rendered":"Broncos promote QB Sam Ehlinger to active roster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ENGLEWOOD, Colo. \u2014 The Broncos have made multiple roster moves following Sunday&#8217;s win over the Chargers.<\/p>\n<p>Denver promoted quarterback Sam Ehlinger from the practice squad to the active roster, the team announced Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The Broncos also waived tackle Geron Christian and tight end Marcedes Lewis in corresponding moves.<\/p>\n<p>Ehlinger did not appear in a game in the regular season, but he served as the team&#8217;s emergency third quarterback for a series of games while previously on the active roster. He also was twice elevated from the practice squad to the game-day roster.<\/p>\n<p>A former third-round pick, Christian signed with the Broncos in November but also did not appear in a regular-season game.<\/p>\n<p>Lewis appeared in five games for the Broncos in the regular season and played 24 percent of Denver&#8217;s offensive snaps in those games.<\/p>\n<p>Following Denver&#8217;s roster moves, the Broncos have one open spot on their 53-man roster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ENGLEWOOD, Colo. \u2014 The Broncos have made multiple roster moves following Sunday&#8217;s win over the Chargers. Denver promoted&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":657108,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2062],"tags":[1010,232,231,258,2426,7,6,3875,1004,3571],"class_list":{"0":"post-657107","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-denver-broncos","8":"tag-aric-dilalla","9":"tag-broncos","10":"tag-denver","11":"tag-denver-broncos","12":"tag-denverbroncos","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-sam-ehlinger","16":"tag-top-stories","17":"tag-transactions"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115845145963356741","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657107","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=657107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/657108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}