An Exclusive Rights Free Agent (ERFA) is a player with an expired contract and fewer than three accrued seasons in the NFL. The Broncos are signing them to a one-year deal that is worth the league minimum, and they cannot negotiate with other teams. If the Broncos fail to tender an ERFA, they will become a unrestricted free agent.<\/p>\n
Safety Devon Key had a breakout year as a special teamer this past year. He entered the year as a fringe 53-man roster player who had some struggles the previous year and finished the year as a first-team All-Pro special teams player. He had a nose for the ball and made a bunch of special teams tackles this past season while providing depth at safety for the Broncos. Now, the Broncos have an All-Pro special teamer and backup safety at an affordable price who is basically a lock to make the 53-man roster.<\/p>\n
As for Dondrea Tillman, the former UFL standout player, joined the Broncos in 2024 and quickly made an impact for them. He had 5 sacks his rookie year with the Broncos and followed that up with 4 sacks and 2 interceptions this past season. Tillman provides valuable depth at edge rusher and is a key member of their rotational pass rushing unit.<\/p>\n
Both of these were no-brainers. In all likelihood, both players will be on the 53-man roster and be valuable and affordable depth pieces for the Broncos this upcoming season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Exclusive Rights Free Agent (ERFA) is a player with an expired contract and fewer than three accrued…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":797100,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2062],"tags":[232,231,258,1151,2426,7,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-797099","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-news","12":"tag-denverbroncos","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116184590234862232","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797099","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=797099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/797100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}