{"id":766752,"date":"2026-02-21T12:18:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T12:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/766752\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T12:18:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T12:18:19","slug":"extending-jaquan-mcmillian-should-be-a-no-brainer-for-denver-broncos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/766752\/","title":{"rendered":"Extending Ja\u2019Quan McMillian should be a no-brainer for Denver Broncos"},"content":{"rendered":"

A great read over at The Denver Post<\/a> on the Ja\u2019Quan McMillian situation this offseason highlighted for me what should be a \u2018no-brainer\u2019 move for the Denver Broncos in the coming months: giving McMillian a long-term extension.<\/p>\n

There are just measurables that you cannot quantify until you see a guy play in the NFL. McMillian isn\u2019t very tall (5\u20199\u201d), isn\u2019t very fast (4.59 second 40-time), and seems like a guy who would get bullied by bigger receivers. Instead, he has the unquantifiable intangibles that people underrate too often. He has great instincts and his agility is higher on the charts with a 6.76 second 3-cone drill and a 36.5-inch vertical during his pro day in 2022<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He didn\u2019t see much action through his first season, but began to gain a lot more playing time from 2023 on. In those three seasons, he has 7 total interceptions for 120 yards and two touchdowns. He also has forced five fumbles. Add that with 195 total tackles, 16 tackles for a loss, and seven sacks, and you have a pretty damn good starting cornerback.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s a proven guy, he\u2019s come in and he\u2019s battled through,\u201d Deryk Gilmore, McMillian\u2019s agent, said to The Denver Post<\/a>. \u201cThey\u2019ve drafted people over him and he\u2019s never complained. He\u2019s embraced the challenge and risen. \u2026 He loves it there. It\u2019s a great fit. It\u2019s all stuff that we all know.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gilmore here is absolutely correct on all points. There is just no reason not to keep a ball-hawking corner like McMillian in Denver long-term.<\/p>\n

Of the two corners the team needs to make a decision on, I would grade McMillian\u2019s value well above Riley Moss. Add in the fact that they have first-round pick Jahdae Barron waiting in the wings, I think Moss is a guy they should move and slide Barron outside<\/a>. Barron can play both inside and outside, so why not keep an already outstanding slot corner in McMillian and move Barron opposite of Pat Surtain? That\u2019s how I see it, anyway.<\/p>\n

In a perfect world, they keep everyone. Because who wouldn\u2019t love to have the kind of depth the Broncos had at cornerback last season? It just rarely works out that way. There is just too much value in other areas to not move one of these guys.<\/p>\n

What does the rest of Broncos Country think? I guess at the end of the day this is all a good problem to have.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A great read over at The Denver Post on the Ja\u2019Quan McMillian situation this offseason highlighted for me…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":766753,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2062],"tags":[232,231,258,84698,2426,7,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-766752","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-denver-broncos-discussion","12":"tag-denverbroncos","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116108585010886255","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766752","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=766752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/766753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=766752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=766752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=766752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}