{"id":854136,"date":"2026-04-04T23:18:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T23:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/854136\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T23:18:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T23:18:35","slug":"with-waddle-addition-broncos-fans-happy-with-wr-room-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/854136\/","title":{"rendered":"With Waddle addition, Broncos fans happy with WR room"},"content":{"rendered":"

At the NFL owners meeting this past week, head coach Sean Payton was pretty clear about his opinion of bringing in Miami receiver Jaylen Waddle.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously we are excited,\u201d he said, noting the long process of getting the deal finalized after first looking into the trade during the season. \u201cHe is explosive. I think if you asked me the single biggest thing that I think he does well is he\u2019s extremely fast and he stops fast. He can sink his hips in transition and then the other thing that came up time and time again is how competitive he is.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Payton added that everything is important when looking at trade of \u201cthis magnitude\u201d and he consulted withe people he is close to \u2014 such as Teddy Bridgewater and Nick Saban \u2014 who could speak to \u201ceverything\u201d when it came to Waddle\u2019s contributions to the team.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen it comes to Waddle\u2019s all the other stuff, it was 10, 10, 10, 10, 10,\u201d Payton said. \u201cSo I think obviously it will help us.\u201d<\/p>\n

And in our SBNation reacts poll,<\/a> it appears Broncos Country believes that too.<\/p>\n

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After the trade for Waddle, speculation about trading other receivers such as Marvin Mims, Jr., or Troy Franklin got a lot of attention.<\/p>\n

But GM George Paton quieted that talk pretty quickly when he said they are happy with the current room.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe really like those pieces, and they\u2019re all going to help us,\u201d Paton said. \u201cThey\u2019ve all helped us up to now. We\u2019re seven, eight [players] deep. We really like it, so why would we build up this room and then trade someone right now?\u201d<\/p>\n

Payton was more nuanced in his answer about being comfortable with the team at this point.<\/p>\n

\u201cI never feel good. We have the draft coming up and we are excited about that,\u201d he said. \u201cThe point is, though, you have to apply some patience and have a good plan. We recognize where we are at. We understand exactly where we are at with Bo\u2019s contract, our team.\u201d<\/p>\n

But the mistake most teams make, Payton added, is trying to win the day rather than the season.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe mistake that two-thirds of the teams make is trying to win the day. Win the draft day, win the hiring cycle day and win the free agency day,\u201d he said. \u201cWe are interested in winning. That\u2019s why our fanbase is extremely important to us, but we are going to do what we think is best for our team to be better when this puzzle is finished, at the end of call it June. Then what do we look like at that point?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At the NFL owners meeting this past week, head coach Sean Payton was pretty clear about his opinion…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":854137,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2062],"tags":[232,564,1270,231,258,2426,7,1272,345,14706,6,8342,110210,1813,300,1275,3081,1473],"class_list":{"0":"post-854136","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-denver-broncos","8":"tag-broncos","9":"tag-colorado","10":"tag-courtland-sutton","11":"tag-denver","12":"tag-denver-broncos","13":"tag-denverbroncos","14":"tag-football","15":"tag-george-paton","16":"tag-green-bay-packers","17":"tag-jaylen-waddle","18":"tag-nfl","19":"tag-nick-saban","20":"tag-ron-chenoy-imagn","21":"tag-sean-payton","22":"tag-teddy-bridgewater","23":"tag-troy-franklin","24":"tag-usa","25":"tag-wide-receiver"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116348998954707308","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854136","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=854136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/854137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=854136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=854136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=854136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}