{"id":87054,"date":"2025-05-29T04:13:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T04:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/87054\/"},"modified":"2025-05-29T04:13:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T04:13:08","slug":"von-miller-says-hell-play-in-2025-but-nixes-broncos-reunion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/87054\/","title":{"rendered":"Von Miller says he’ll play in 2025, but nixes Broncos reunion"},"content":{"rendered":"

COMMERCE CITY \u2014 Von Miller<\/a> is committed to playing in the NFL this fall.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s quite sure it won\u2019t be with the Broncos.<\/p>\n

The former Denver great most recently spent three seasons in Buffalo that ended with his release this winter.<\/p>\n

Miller, 36, doesn\u2019t know where he\u2019s going to play in 2025, but he predicted Wednesday that it wouldn\u2019t be in the city where he spent the first nine years of his career.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you look at this year, it really doesn\u2019t make sense,\u201d Miller said at a vision clinic here where he was hosting a Von\u2019s Vision event. \u201cThey\u2019ve got two really, really good rushers that are best in the league with Jonathon Cooper and Nik Bonitto<\/a>. They\u2019re incredible rushers. And the guys underneath them, they come in and produce sacks, too.\u201d<\/p>\n

Miller, 36, also had a practical take on why young players like Jonah Elliss, Dondrea Tillman and fourth-round pick Que Robinson could also be part of the reason a team doesn\u2019t need a future Hall of Famer with 129.5 career sacks.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey play special teams,\u201d he said with a smile. \u201cI\u2019m not playing special teams, so that kind of makes the decision itself. I think at 36 years old, I can say that I probably won\u2019t be doing that.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo this year, probably not. The year after that, we\u2019ll see what happens.\u201d<\/p>\n

Miller, however, is confident he\u2019ll have a job somewhere in 2025 for a very simple reason.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can get out of bed and rush the passer and get sacks,\u201d he said. \u201cI can fall out of bed and do that. I can still play the run, still eat up one-on-ones, still beat tight end chippers and running backs. I can roll off the bed and get sacks in my house shoes still today at 36 years old.<\/p>\n

\u201cMore important than that, when it comes to the locker room \u2014 I don\u2019t like to toot my own horn \u2014 but when it comes to the locker room and being around the guys, I just have that ability. I have that talent from the star quarterback to the new, undrafted rookies that you bring in.\u201d<\/p>\n

Even with two teams, a Super Bowl title and more than three years separating Miller from the day he was traded by the Broncos to the Los Angeles Rams, he\u2019s still a fan of the franchise and still spends time on the Front Range.<\/p>\n

On this day, he helped give away nearly 200 pairs of glasses to 100 children during a sold-out day at a local vision clinic.<\/p>\n

Von\u2019s Vision, now 14 years in, is \u201cold enough to drive and have a mind of his own,\u201d he joked. It\u2019s one of the reasons he keeps coming back to Colorado every offseason.<\/p>\n

\u201cDriving by the stadium when I got here last night, driving by the stadium and going to the hotel and seeing the stadium and the lights, it was incredible,\u201d Miller said. \u201c\u2026 Broncos Country was good to me. Whenever you step off the plane and you\u2019re in Broncos Country, you just get this feeling. Of course, it\u2019s the altitude, too, but I spent so much time here \u2014 11.5 years \u2014 and it was all love and all respect. Mutual respect from both sides. It will always be love here.\u201d<\/p>\n

Miller got an up-close-and-personal look at the Broncos each of the past two seasons in Buffalo, first in a 2023 Monday Night Football game and then in January during the Wild Card round.<\/p>\n

Consider him impressed.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was part of that quarterback carousel and now they\u2019ve got them one,\u201d Miller said. \u201cThey\u2019ve got one for sure. Bo Nix, I\u2019ve seen him play and I\u2019ve played against him. He\u2019s the real deal. The defense is incredible with Nik Bonitto and Jonathon Cooper. \u2026 (Defensive coordinator Vance Joseph) is an incredible coach. Played with him as well. Zach Allen on the inside is one of the best defensive tackles in the league. They led the league in sacks last year.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019ve got an incredible team. Bo Nix, this will be his second year coming up and I know he expects more and Broncos Country expects more as well. I know he has more. He\u2019s going to keep on growing.\u201d<\/p>\n

On he went. Former teammates Courtland Sutton and Garett Bolles. Young talent like Marvin Mims Jr. Long-time staple on the opposing side of the line of scrimmage, Mike McGlinchey.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis Broncos team is really rounding off into a very good team,\u201d he surmised.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s maybe a bit ironic, then, that the same depth Miller marvels at is part of the reason he himself sees no logical path to returning.<\/p>\n

So he\u2019ll play somewhere. And after so many years of wishing he had more free time during these months on the calendar, he\u2019ll be glad to get to that somewhere pronto.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe offseason\u2019s a little longer than I expected it to be, but that\u2019s the way it\u2019s supposed to be,\u201d Miller said. \u201cYou reminisce, too, whenever you have all this time. You think about all these OTAs and summer training sessions where you were like, \u2018Man, why do I have to be here? Why I got to be at OTAs?\u2019 Now I\u2019m sitting at home like, \u2018Man, I wish I was at OTAs right now.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s kind of that reverse. But I\u2019m appreciative and I\u2019m grateful and that time will come here soon.\u201d<\/p>\n

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