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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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