Broncos Place Rookie OLB Christopher Allen on Season-Ending IR

Christopher Allen’s rookie marketing campaign is over earlier than it started. Amid a sequence of roster strikes, the Denver Broncos positioned the undrafted exterior linebacker on season-ending injured reserve.

The group, in corresponding transactions, additionally signed operating backs JaQuan Hardy and Stevie Scott and designated RB Tyreik McCallister as waived/injured, it introduced Wednesday.

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Denver’s determination to mothball Allen, 24, possible stems from the foot damage he suffered throughout his closing season at Alabama — the damage that landed him on the Bodily Unable to Carry out record to begin coaching camp. He was faraway from the record on July 29 however remained restricted in observe.

“We’re simply going to relaxation [him] as a result of for him, it’s simply been so lengthy since he’s performed soccer,” head coach Nathaniel Hackett stated on Aug. 4. “So, for him, banging slightly bit the opposite day, we simply wish to you’ll want to relaxation him and slowly work him in.”

Allen was an efficient edge rusher for the Crimson Tide, tallying 34 solo tackles, 18.5 tackles-for-loss, 6.5 sacks, and three pressured fumbles. Nonetheless, the 6-foot-3, 241-pound defender merely couldn’t keep wholesome, lacking a lot of final yr with an aforementioned foot fracture and all of 2018 resulting from a knee difficulty.

The damage jacket plummeted Allen’s inventory and he went unselected in April’s draft. Denver subsequently signed him as a school free agent, guaranteeing $180,000 of a four-year contract.

A developmental stash, Allen ought to return to full well being in time for the 2023 offseason program.

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