April 5, 2026, 7:00 a.m. MT<\/p>\n
Following a grueling 2025 season that stretched into late January, the Denver Broncos<\/a> are pushing back their offseason program.<\/p>\n Broncos coach Sean Payton first announced that news during an interview<\/a> with ESPN’s Pat McAfee at the NFL combine in February. He confirmed the tweaked schedule while speaking to media members<\/a> at the NFL’s annual meeting in Phoenix, Arizona, last week.<\/p>\n “Typically, we come in in April,” Payton said<\/a>. “The first four weeks \u2014 I know what the league\u2019s phases are \u2014 we kind of tweak it. I always want the first month to be weight room, nothing to do with football. So this year, we went three weeks further into the season. Our players won\u2019t be in our building until May, the first Monday in May. I think it\u2019s the third or fourth.<\/p>\n “All of May will just be weightlifting. You\u2019ll see us on the field in June. We\u2019ll have two weeks of OTAs and a week of minicamp, but I don\u2019t want them to feel like they were just here. So we\u2019ve done that before. I think it\u2019s important, and I think the players appreciate it because they were just here.\u201d<\/p>\n Payton indicated the offseason program will begin on Monday, May 4, followed by organized team activities (OTAs) beginning in early June and a mandatory minicamp in mid-June. After that, players will have a summer break until training camp begins (usually in late July).<\/p>\n Need a news break? Check out the all new PLAY hub with puzzles, games and more!<\/a><\/p>\n Payton also said quarterback Bo Nix (ankle<\/a>) will be ready to participate in the offseason program.<\/p>\n Social: Follow\u00a0Broncos Wire<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Twitter\/X<\/a>!\u00a0Did you know:\u00a0These 25 celebrities are Broncos fans<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"April 5, 2026, 7:00 a.m. MT Following a grueling 2025 season that stretched into late January, the Denver…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":856323,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2062],"tags":[95878,232,231,258,2426,7,6,95879,95880,95882,97108,95892,95893,95896,95888,95899,99231,95883,95881],"class_list":{"0":"post-856322","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-denver-broncos","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-broncos","10":"tag-denver","11":"tag-denver-broncos","12":"tag-denverbroncos","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-sstssportsnflbroncos","16":"tag-sstsnbroncos","17":"tag-tagamerican-football","18":"tag-tagbo-nix","19":"tag-tagespn-inc","20":"tag-tagfacebook","21":"tag-tagnational-sports","22":"tag-tagnfl","23":"tag-tagoverall-neutral","24":"tag-tagpat-mcafee","25":"tag-tagsports-news","26":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116355878383161009","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856322","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=856322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/856323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=856322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=856322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=856322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}