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Reports: Broncos Sign 13 UDFAs, Give Alabama OLB Chris Allen $180K Guaranteed
After making 9 alternatives within the 2022 NFL Draft, the Denver Broncos proceeded to tack on a slew of undrafted free brokers.
In line with media experiences, the Broncos have signed 13 UDFAs:
- Alabama OLB Christopher Allen
- Buffalo LB Kadofi Wright
- USC LB Kana’i Mauga
- East Carolina CB Ja’Quan McMillian
- Hawaii CB Cortez Davis
- Charleston RB Tyriek McCallister
- App State WR Jalen Virgil
- Northwest Missouri State WR Kaden Davis
- Central Florida WR Brandon Johnson
- NC State TE Dylan Parham
- UT Martin TE Rodney Williams
- Temple OL Michael Niese
- Minot State OT Sebastian Gutierrez
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Denver signed every of those prospects as precedence free brokers, though the membership seems notably eager on Allen, who obtained $180,000 in whole ensures, per Pro Football Network’s Doug Kyed.
Allen is a 6-foot-3, 241-pound ‘backer who missed a lot of final season with a fractured foot. He additionally missed your entire 2018 marketing campaign resulting from a knee damage. When wholesome, nevertheless, he produced for Nick Saban’s program.
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Allen completed his collegiate profession with 34 solo tackles, 18.5 tackles-for-loss, 6.5 sacks, and three compelled fumbles, incomes 2020 second-team All-SEC honors. Bleacher Report draft scout Derrik Klassen in contrast Allen to former Browns second-round LB Nate Orchard, assigning the “high-level developmental prospect” a fifth-round grade.
“In a common sense, Allen is a match for the fashionable NFL,” Klassen famous. “He can play on the sting as a stand-up backer, attune to dealing with run protection tasks from there, and he can pin his ears again and rush the passer slightly. Nonetheless, Allen has no actual standout trait, and his lack of weight and energy might grow to be extra of an issue within the NFL than it was at Alabama. Allen initiatives as a dependable, versatile backup or rotational participant in a 3-4 construction.”
Signed, sealed, and delivered to Denver, Allen can be thrown right into a crowded pass-rushing corps, a depth chart comprised of Bradley Chubb, Randy Gregory, Baron Browning, Malik Reed, Jonathon Cooper, and fellow rookie Nik Bonitto, the Broncos’ sixty fourth general decide.
“You’ll be able to by no means have sufficient individuals to hurry a passer,” head coach Nathaniel Hackett stated throughout his post-draft press convention. “We speak so much. It’s how the quarterback performs, it’s the way you have an effect on the quarterback from the protection’s perspective. So we need to discover as many rushers as we are able to. We would like nice competitors in that room. I really feel like we’re going to have the ability to get after a few of these quarterbacks on this division.”
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U.W.A. is first in Alabama to offer a Master of Dyslexia Therapy degree
LIVINGSTON, Ala. (WTOK) – The University of West Alabama is launching a new degree this fall, the Master of Dyslexia Therapy program .
According to the International Dyslexia Association 15-20% of the population is dyslexic. That’s one in every five people.
“A lot of times parents see their children come home and they are just struggling to read,” said Sara Reynolds, Coordinator of Clinical Experience. “They are struggling to really capture and decode these words.”
Dyslexia is a learning challenge that is neurological, characterized by difficulties in reading and spelling ability.
“Without that their comprehension skills are going to lack and so with this program we are able to kind of screen those and give them a really good baseline to see where those children are struggling at,” said Reynolds.
The goal of the program is to enhance the number of equipped Dyslexia Therapists ready to help students soar.
“The program is a two-year program. It is thirty hours of course work and throughout those two years you will complete 720 hours of clinical experience. It begins really after you start the program, so this first cohort will begin in Fall I,” said Reynolds. “During the Fall II, which is in about mid- October, you will begin to actually be an actual dyslexia therapist-in-training. So those people will be in the schools wherever they are already employed at or we will partner them with local schools in their area to where they will actually give those services to those students in those schools.”
Studies show that Dyslexia Therapy is working, thanks to educators willing to pave the path toward a brighter future, one student at a time.
For more information on how you can apply for the program visit: https://online.uwa.edu/online-degrees/med-master-education-degree-dyslexia-therapy/.
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Vigor offensive lineman and Alabama commit Micah Dubose is transferring to Theodore for senior season
MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) – Four-star offensive lineman Micah Dubose is transferring from Vigor to Theodore for his senior season, Theodore Bobcats Head Coach Steve Mask confirms to FOX10.
The announcement comes just two weeks after Vigor announced it was relieving Markus Cook of his duties as head coach.
Mask says the decision to move was based on Micah’s education and the Alabama commit plans to graduate in December.
Dubose is considered one of the top players in Alabama in the 2025 class, being named first team all-state by the Alabama Sports Writers Association in back-to-back seasons.
Dubose committed to Kalen DeBoer and the Tide while on his official visit in Tuscaloosa over the weekend.
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