Feb. 20, 2026, 5:30 a.m. MT<\/p>\n
After the Denver Broncos<\/a> went 14-3 and clinched the AFC’s No. 1 playoff seed last fall, it’s now time to retool the roster ahead of the 2026 campaign.<\/p>\n NFL free agency begins next month, and the NFL draft will be held in April. Denver will have plenty of salary cap space<\/a>, and they are expected to hold nine draft picks<\/a>. During his end-of-season press conference last month, Broncos<\/a> general manager George Paton was asked how he evaluates whether the roster merely needs refinement or aggressive upgrades.<\/p>\n \u201cThat\u2019s a good question,” Paton said. “We\u2019ll take a week of going through the roster with a fine-tooth [comb] and go through every position. We evaluate our roster versus the other rosters, our roster versus the AFC West. We\u2019ll stack each position and just determine where we need to get better at.<\/p>\n “Every team needs to get better, and there is no perfect team. We\u2019ll spend a week at least doing that and then who is available? Who is available in free agency? Who\u2019s available in the draft? It\u2019s a puzzle, and you have a plan and you hope to execute that plan.\u201d<\/p>\n Denver’s needs this offseason include running back and wide receiver as the club looks to give quarterback Bo Nix more weapons going into his third season. The Broncos’ plan has been set, and fans should start to see action in the coming weeks. The NFL’s free agency negotiating window<\/a> opens on March 9.<\/p>\n Need a news break? Check out the all new PLAY hub with puzzles, games and more!<\/a><\/p>\n Social: Follow\u00a0Broncos Wire<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Twitter\/X<\/a>!\u00a0Did you know:\u00a0These 25 celebrities are Broncos fans<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Feb. 20, 2026, 5:30 a.m. MT After the Denver Broncos went 14-3 and clinched the AFC’s No. 1…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":764577,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[95878,7,6,95879,95880,95882,95887,97108,95886,95893,95896,95888,95895,95906,95883,95894,95881],"class_list":{"0":"post-764576","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-sstssportsnflbroncos","12":"tag-sstsnbroncos","13":"tag-tagamerican-football","14":"tag-tagamerican-football-conference","15":"tag-tagbo-nix","16":"tag-tagdenver-broncos","17":"tag-tagfacebook","18":"tag-tagnational-sports","19":"tag-tagnfl","20":"tag-tagnfl-hub","21":"tag-tagoverall-positive","22":"tag-tagsports-news","23":"tag-tagtwitter","24":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116103154387881947","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764576","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=764576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/764577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=764576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=764576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=764576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}