THE Denver Broncos made a number of impressive and informed movements in the free agency. The Broncos looked at holes along the defense column with the DJ Jones defensive platform to arrive on the market and security and secondary issues.
Denver selected Jones before the official opening of the Libre Agency and brought its former San Francisco teammates to join the Dr. Greenlaw and Talalaoa Hufanga security party. While these signatures should increase the ceiling on what was already a very good defense in Denver, the addition of the old tight end of the first round Evan Engram is the movement that brought the most excitement of the Mile High City.
Sean Payton spoke of the role of “joker” in the interviews before the Super Bowl, and he and GM George Payton discussed the subject for a long time during their podium sessions at the NFL combines. From there, fans and the media ran with the need where all other articles or simulations have discussed a “joker”.
Broncos apparently found their guys, with Engram tweeting this image After having officially signed with Denver:
– Evan Engram (@eazyengram) March 13, 2025
How much ENGRAM has Engram to Denver by filling the desired gap niche for Payton’s offensive? Professional football focus“Ben Cooper thinks that the signing of Engram is the highest movement of the organization of this offseason.
“Many have been made of the Broncos head coach, Sean Payton, saying that he wanted a” joker “player for his attack. Enter Evan Engram. The 30-year-old tight end of the coverage defenders at a rate of 68th central among the tight ends in 2024 and ranks eighth in the fall rate in the past two years,” Cooper wrote. “While the old first round choice will play on a significant two-year agreement, he could be a difference in difference for the quarter-rear BO Nix and Denver’s offensive.”
The exact role of Engram will be on this offense remains to be seen. He suffered a number of lower body injuries – veal stumps, fired hamstring, MCL sprains and sprains on foot – for the duration of his NFL career and was sidelined for the year after receiving end -of -season surgery to repair a torn shoulder labrum in 2024.
Engram, who will be 31, should be a boon for the Broncos offensive and offer another weapon so that Payton and Bo Nix can play with it, but is he really the most “upward” player? I would say that Greenlaw and Hufanga, each coming with their own list of injuries, have an even more important advantage than Engram.
With Greenlaw at 27 and Hufanga at 25, the two are “right” of 30 and have a massive advantage if they can stay on the ground. Hufanga, in particular, has an incredible production and play capacity.
During his 2022 healthy season, Hufanga played at an All-Pro level and forced six reversals while flying around the defense of San Francisco. As an emerging star alongside the best secondary of this generation, Fred Warner, Greenlaw seemed to become a fully professional player.
The two will have to remain healthy, but given their age and high level of play on their recruit contracts in San Francisco, they can be considered as higher signatures.
Hufanga and Greenlaw can be surrounded by more talents, which means fewer possibilities of accumulating statistics as opposed to Engram and the young and not proven weapons of the broncos that surround it. The two defenders are roughly also signatures from boom or bumps and high than any other offseason.
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