Denver is losing one of its top defensive players for the remainder of the season. The Broncos placed defensive lineman Dre’Mont Jones on injured reserve with a hip injury he sustained against Kansas City.
Jones missed the entire week of practice and head coach Nathaniel Hackett said the fourth-year man from Ohio State had been seeing specialists to try to nail down the extent of the injury.
Now his season is over. He is set to be a free agent and will be looking to cash in after a productive fourth season. At the trade deadline, general manager George Paton called Jones “a core player” for the Broncos and indicated he wanted to keep Jones in the franchise long term.