Broncos re-sign WR Lil\u2019Jordan Humphrey to a one-year deal<\/a>
The Sean Payton favorite is back in orange and blue. Lil\u2019Jordan Humphrey signed a one-year, $1.3 million veteran-minimum deal to return to Denver after contributing nine catches for 101 yards and a touchdown in seven regular-season games last year. Humphrey also came up big in the playoffs, including a 29-yard touchdown grab in the Divisional Round win over Buffalo. Payton originally brought Humphrey into the league as an undrafted free agent in New Orleans, and the big-bodied receiver continues to be a trusted depth piece.<\/p>\nAdvertisement<\/p>\n
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The Jacksonville Jaguars are reportedly uninterested in free agency this cycle because they are aiming for more compensatory picks for what is viewed as a stacked 2027 NFL Draft. Could that be the plan in Denver on a lesser scale as they figure to get a fourth-round comp pick from the loss of John Franklin-Meyers in free agency.<\/p>\n
The FEED happeningsBroncos historyWho was the worst free agent signing ever?<\/p>\n
Thinking back, I can think of plenty of poor free agent signings but everyone has guys who don\u2019t work out and doesn\u2019t necessarily mean they were one of the worst ever. Dre Greenlaw didn\u2019t work out for Denver and is heading back to the San Francisco 49ers, but I don\u2019t think I\u2019d even consider him for this list.<\/p>\n
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The name that pops out in my head would be Ja\u2019Wuan James. Poor John Elway could never find a reliable right tackle in the post-Peyton Manning era and the poster child of that saga had to be James. He played in just three games after being signed, opted out for the COVID season, and then tore his Achilles in his final season with Denver never playing. He would play just one more game in his career after that and is now out of the league.<\/p>\n
But surely, he wasn\u2019t the worst. So I had AI compile a list of major free agent signings by the Broncos going back to 2000 and, sure enough, there were some pretty bad signings.<\/p>\n
It would seem James would need to share this title with many other signings going back that far. In 2000, Mike Shanahan signed both Daryl Gardener and Dale Carter in free agency. Gardener played in three games and his career was over and Carter played that first season before being suspended a year for violating the league\u2019s substance abuse policy. A few years later in 2007, Shanny signed Travis Henry to a big free agent deal and he would test positive for weed and get suspended and cut just a year later.<\/p>\n
Then, we\u2019ve got to fast forward to the John Elway era and his right tackle saga. James came to my mind first, but I totally forgot that right tackle saga was a saga for a reason. First came Donald Stephenson who had some rough outings in 2016 before the team then signed Menelik Watson in 2017 who would only play in seven games.<\/p>\n
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Who else do you think deserves some discussion on this rather sad topic?<\/p>\n
That\u2019s it for today, Broncos Country!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Denver Broncos brought back another former player from last year in wide receiver Lil\u2019Jordan Humphrey. I actually…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":809024,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2062],"tags":[232,53,48886,231,258,8302,2426,146,112884,1160,7,392,125,1273,1302,90259,20785,4959,112885,896,6,252,1813,22087],"class_list":{"0":"post-809023","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-denver-broncos","8":"tag-broncos","9":"tag-buffalo-bills","10":"tag-davis-webb","11":"tag-denver","12":"tag-denver-broncos","13":"tag-denver-post","14":"tag-denverbroncos","15":"tag-detroit","16":"tag-donald-stephenson","17":"tag-dre-greenlaw","18":"tag-football","19":"tag-indianapolis-colts","20":"tag-jacksonville-jaguars","21":"tag-jaleel-mclaughlin","22":"tag-james-gladstone","23":"tag-jim-leonhard","24":"tag-liljordan-humphrey","25":"tag-manning","26":"tag-menelik-watson","27":"tag-new-orleans","28":"tag-nfl","29":"tag-san-francisco-49ers","30":"tag-sean-payton","31":"tag-willie-snead"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116218795512609148","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809023","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=809023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/809024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=809023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=809023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=809023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}