Twelve things about the Broncos as rookie minicamp continued Saturday:
1. The right tackle spot should be Bobby Massie’s to lose. He signed a one-year deal during the week and Cameron Fleming agreed to terms, but has not signed yet. Massie has 110 career starts compared to 42 for Fleming. If Massie wins the job, the next question is whether Fleming is kept as a swing backup tackle or if the Broncos stick with Calvin Anderson.
2. From the More You Can Do Dept.: Kendall Hinton, a practice squad receiver and emergency quarterback last year, wore a white No. 9 jersey Saturday and went through defensive back drills in general and cornerback drills in particular.
3. Seventh-round pick Marquiss Spencer got 1-on-1 instruction during individual drills — he was the only defensive lineman at rookie camp. Spencer will be interesting to watch in August. The top four linemen are Shelby Harris, Dre’Mont Jones, Mike Purcell and likely Shamar Stephen. After that, it’s Spencer, McTelvin Agim and DeShawn Williams playing for possibly two spots.
4. The Ja’Wuan James Error ended with minimal fanfare Friday when he was dumped by the Broncos, who intend to not pay his fully-guaranteed $10.625 million salary (the extra $625,000 is to account for the 17th game). Going this route allows the Broncos to create instant cap space instead of keeping him on the non-injury football list and having his contract toll ahead a year and waiting out the grievance process.
5. Six pages of the collective bargaining agreement are dedicated to the non-football injury grievance process and it’s a mind-numbing read. The basics: James’ camp has 50 days from Friday to file a grievance via the NFLPA to the league’s Management Council.
6. A league executive doesn’t expect the Broncos to try and recoup $3 million of James’ $12 million signing bonus. Why? Because going after money already paid to the player is bad optics within the locker room.
7. James deleted his tweet from Friday stating the NFLPA should have “our backs” if it was going to “advise” players to skip voluntary on-site workouts. The statement by the Broncos’ players looks more short-sighted by the day. James has lost his money, the same probably for receiver DaeSean Hamilton. But, here’s the rub, which gives the union an out: It can say they were suggesting players boycott on-site work, not making a demand. In some way, was James in particular gullible by listening to the union when other teammates did not? Yes. But the union totally misplayed this. We still haven’t heard a peep from Broncos player rep Brandon McManus.
8. Last note on James: He received $17 million for 63 offensive plays of work — $269,841.27 per snap.
9. Phase 2 of the offseason program starts Monday. Virtual meetings will continue, but players will be allowed to do on-field work with coaches at a teaching pace. Coach Vic Fangio said he’s “not sure” what the attendance will be. “We’ve put a lot of thought into the schedule that we have come up with,” he said. “We’ve heard everybody’s side of the story — players, coaches, management. Hopefully we’ll have a good number. It’s voluntary so whoever decides to attend, we’ll be happy about it.”
10. Fangio’s first two Broncos teams started 0-4 and 0-3. The schedule sets up perfectly for a better start this year — at the Giants, at Jacksonville and vs. the Jets. “A fast start is always important regardless of the trouble we’ve had the past two years,” Fangio said. “All I look at when the schedule comes out is our first 2-3 opponents. We like to do some planning for them at this time of the year.”
11. Fangio said he, general manager George Paton, tight ends coach Wade Harman, director of player development Ray Jackson, quarterback Drew Lock and outside linebacker Von Miller traveled to Omaha, Neb., for the funeral of Kathy Fant, 53, mother of tight end Noah Fant. “It was important (to attend),” Fangio said. “It was a very sad situation — very traumatic for Noah and his family. It happened very suddenly. I just think it was good for us to get some guys together to show him some support. He’ll have our support when he comes back.” The Broncos provided the private plane for the contingent.
12. The next key date for the Broncos is their first organized team activity workout on May 24. It will be our first chance to see all of the new players on the field, including quarterback Teddy Bridgewater. And we’ll get to see how toothless the boycott statement from last month was and all of the veterans who are present.
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