Denver is adding a pair of tryout players to its roster.
According to Mike Klis of 9News Denver, the Broncos are signing linebacker Jordan Turner and receiver Kyrese White.
Both players participated in the club’s rookie minicamp. Turner played his college ball at Michigan State and White at Utah State.
The Broncos are also re-signing long snapper Zach Triner after releasing him on Friday, Chris Tomasson of the Denver Gazette reports. The club needed a roster spot for rookie minicamp.
Denver’s other long snapper Mitch Fraboni is working his way through a back issue.
Broncos rookie running back RJ Harvey has done his homework on his new head coach.
At a press conference during the team’s rookie minicamp, Harvey said he’d studied up Alvin Kamara and Darren Sproles because they both played running back for Sean Payton during Payton’s time with the Saints. Harvey said he definitely wants “to be like those guys” and Payton seems to think that there’s a way to make that happen.
Payton said on Saturday that there’s a lot the Broncos can do “to really suit his strengths” and that includes making sure that Harvey is well integrated into the passing game.
“I think when you look at a lot of college offenses, I don’t know how often the running back is built into the passing game,” Payton said, via the team’s website. “I think they are, to some degree, but maybe a little bit more so at the NFL level. Today, we had two or three schemes that went in. . . . If you’ve got one of those plays in the script, we try to make sure he’s getting that rep.”
The Broncos offense took a leap forward after drafting quarterback Bo Nix last season, but they didn’t get have a running back who made a major impact. If Harvey proves to be that guy, the arrow should continue to point straight up in Denver.
Draft weekend ended with a report that linebacker Dre Greenlaw’s first season with the Broncos may be over before it started with a quadriceps injury. That sparked a flurry of reports (including ours) that Greenlaw would be good to go for training camp.
On Saturday, Broncos coach Sean Payton confirmed that Greenlaw is on track for the start of camp.
“He’s on schedule,” Payton said, via Luca Evans of the Denver Post. “And I saw the early reports. You don’t know how tempted I get sometimes, but I had to show great restraint.”
Payton added that Greenlaw will be a “full participant in training camp.”
Greenlaw signed a three-year, $31.5 million contract with the Broncos in free agency, after six years with the 49ers. He was limited to two games in 2024 after tearing an Achilles tendon during Super Bowl LVIII.
The Broncos have cut punter Matt Haack and long snapper Zach Triner, according to the NFL’s transactions report.
The team needed the roster spots for the 20 incoming rookies.
The release of Haack and Triner was not a surprise. The Broncos drafted rookie punter Jeremy Crawshaw in the sixth round, and though incumbent long snapper Mitchell Fraboni remains sidelined, Christian Johnstone is trying out at the rookie minicamp.
Haack has played for five teams in eight seasons and has averaged 44.7 yards on 453 career punts with a 39.6-yard net. He punted in four games for the Giants last season.
Triner has long snapped for two teams in six seasons, seeing action in 84 career games.
With Desmond Ridder backing out of his tryout at Broncos rookie minicamp, the club is bringing in a quarterback who has been with head coach Sean Payton before.
Per Mike Klis of 9News Denver, Ian Book will have a veteran tryout with the Broncos this weekend.
Book, 27, was a Saints fourth-round pick in 2021 when Payton was still New Orleans’ head coach. He made the one start of his career as a rookie on a Monday night against Miami late in the year, with New Orleans falling 20-3.
Book has since spent time with the Eagles, Patriots, and Chiefs, though he has not appeared in another regular-season game.
