{"id":833921,"date":"2026-03-26T00:32:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T00:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/833921\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T00:32:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T00:32:20","slug":"new-broncos-safety-aims-to-be-best-st-player-in-the-nfl-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/833921\/","title":{"rendered":"New Broncos safety aims to be best ST player in the NFL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Broncos\u2019 new safety and special teams ace, Tycen Anderson, had big goals for his 2025 season in Cincinnati, the team where he was drafted in 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The problem was that with injuries \u2014 and playing behind star safeties like Jessie Bates III, Dax Hill, Vonn Bell and Jordan Battle \u2014 he couldn\u2019t break into the starting lineup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">So he shifted his focus to getting on the field in whatever way possible and being great at it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cI want to be the best special teams player in the league,\u201d Anderson told sports broadcaster Dan Hoard. \u201cThere are a lot of great dudes, and I want to be brought up in the discussion and push for an All-Pro season.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Anderson played in 41 games for the Bengals since being drafted and appeared in each of Cincinnati\u2019s last 34 games, playing at least 75 percent of the team\u2019s special teams snaps in the last two seasons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Toledo native recorded 16 special teams tackles last season, leading the Bengals in special teams stops in both 2023 (8) and 2024 (11).<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">And fun interesting fact \u2014 the Bengals don\u2019t even get a comp pick for the trade. Over the Cap\u2019s Nick Korte <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/nickkorte\/status\/2036449876792451423?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">explained <\/a>that the $1.5 million contract details mean the Bengals won\u2019t even benefit from losing Anderson wiht a compensatory pick.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Bengals\u2019 loss; Broncos\u2019 gain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Broncos\u2019 new safety and special teams ace, Tycen Anderson, had big goals for his 2025 season in Cincinnati,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":822205,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2062],"tags":[232,231,258,41075,1151,2426,7,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-833921","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-free-agency","12":"tag-denver-broncos-news","13":"tag-denverbroncos","14":"tag-football","15":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833921","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=833921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/822205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=833921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=833921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=833921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}