From spring into winter, the ghost of Wilsons Past still floated around Dove Valley in 2024, haunting the Broncos’ front office.
No, Denver didn’t pay Russell Wilson the $350 million he was asking for. But after a franchise-altering decision to dump the QB, they still had to toss $53 million on the books for 2024. It’s hard, naturally, to pay veterans around such a massive roadblock. So Denver, as head coach Sean Payton noted earlier in June, played a “lot of young players” last fall.
“So you hope, quite naturally,” Payton said, “that those guys are further along.