Bo Nix, Jaylen Waddle and Evan Engram were in sync as they pulled off a great touchdown highlight in the Denver Broncos’ season opener against the Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday night.
Training camp is officially in the books, and now the Denver Broncos stand on the doorstep of the regular season . We saw several young players take a big leap forward this summer.
The Denver Broncos head into the 2026 campaign with veteran tight end Evan Engram as their starter, but questions already swirl about the position’s future.
How many of the active NFL players to rush for at least 150 yards in a game can you name in five minutes?
While one preseason game won’t necessarily lock someone right into the starting job over a proven veteran, however, Justin Joly’s 88-yard touchdown against the Minnesota Vikings should cause the Denver Broncos to reconsider Evan Engram‘s role in 2026.
A few trades have rearranged the NFL's backup quarterback ranks, but the dust has mostly settled. From a mix of recent first-round disappointments, aging vets, and young project types, here is how the league's QB2 ranks look for the 2026 season.
Things are looking up for Evan Engram in his second year with the Denver Broncos. One of Engram's former quarterbacks with the New York Giants — Davis Webb — is the Broncos' new offensive coordinator and primary play-caller.
The Denver Broncos got a big day out of Evan Engram as training camp began on Friday. It’s a night-and-day difference from what the team saw from him a season ago.
Evan Engram’s first season with the Denver Broncos did not go as planned. Now, Sean Payton is also being questioned over how the $23 million tight end was used.
We've been breaking down the Denver Broncos' salary-cap situation for 2027 and beyond. One way the Broncos can help themselves is by cultivating plenty of cap carryover from 2026.
The Denver Broncos have a logjam at tight end. It's not a depth chart jammed up by high-level players so much as it is with a lot of bodies. The Broncos' tight end depth chart runs the gamut from highly paid veterans, like Evan Engram and Adam Trautman, to former undrafted guys, to recent late-round draft picks.
The Denver Broncos brought back almost all of their tight ends from the 2025 season, despite the room being a bottom-five unit in the NFL. The Broncos
NFL stars can't play forever, and retirement is coming sooner than later for some of the league's top players. These 25 players could call it quits following the 2026 season.
The Broncos outflanked the Chargers to sign Evan Engram last March, giving the former Pro Bowler a two-year, $23MM contract. Denver did not see desired results from that deal, as Engram and Bo Nix were not often on the same page.
So far, the Denver Broncos have signaled a willingness — nay, an eagerness — to run it back at tight end this offseason. It's a curious strategy, considering how weak the tight end group was for Denver in 2025.
The Denver Broncos decided to retain their tight end room and have yet to add outside talent to bolster it. That's created some concern in the fan base, given that for two years in a row, Denver's tight end room ranked in the bottom five in the NFL.
The Denver Broncos have been relatively quiet on the free-agent front since the new league year opened. We're now more than two weeks into free agency, and the Broncos have signed just one outside guy, although they orchestrated one of the blockbuster moves of 2026 thus far by trading for Jaylen Waddle .
The Broncos clinched a postseason berth and grabbed sole possession of the AFC's No. 1 overall seed via a 34-26 win over the Packers in Week 15. Some were surprised that the Broncos didn't fully embrace a "hat and T-shirt" celebration in the locker room following the victory over Green Bay.
Nix is looking to build off of a solid rookie campaign after the 12th overall pick of the 2024 NFL Draft guided the Denver Broncos to a 10-7 record and a playoff berth.
It certainly sounds like Nix has the respect of his teammates.
Strange finished the 2024 campaign ranked third on the Jaguars with 40 receptions, third with 53 targets and second with 411 receiving yards.
During the 2024 season, the Denver Broncos snapped an eight-year playoff drought, but it's fair to wonder whether they'll continue progressing this upcoming season.
The Denver Broncos made a lot of major additions to the team in free agency. One of the most important ones was the signing of tight end Evan Engram. Denver was going up against the Los Angeles Chargers for Engram, and Engram revealed one of the people behind him choosing Denver.
Cooper Kupp is in need of a new team. Who are the other winners and losers of the latest free-agency action?
The veteran is exactly the kind of weapon Broncos quarterback Bo Nix, entering his second season, needs to accelerate his development.
Both the Broncos and Chargers carried similar issues into the playoffs, as both teams made surprise postseason voyages with top-heavy skill-position groups.
Bo Nix‘s breakthrough rookie season came without much help at the tight end position. As the Broncos would seem to need help at all three skill-position spots, Sean Payton has emphasized tight end and running back over wide receiver.
The Jacksonville Jaguars look to turn things around this offseason. They have already made several coaching and roster-related moves, including releasing veteran tight end Evan Engram after three seasons together, which has produced mixed results.
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