{"id":415960,"date":"2026-01-17T20:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T20:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/415960\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T20:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T20:00:07","slug":"who-is-caleb-lohner-broncos-basketball-player-turned-te-can-make-nfl-debut-in-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/415960\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is Caleb Lohner? Broncos&#8217; basketball player-turned-TE can make NFL debut in playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nfl\/denver-broncos\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Denver Broncos<\/a> added a fascinating name to their roster for Saturday&#8217;s AFC Divisional Round game against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nfl\/buffalo-bills\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Buffalo Bills<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s Caleb Lohner, who has not played a single snap yet in his NFL career after being a seventh-round draft pick in April.<\/p>\n<p>Lohner is a curious choice, because he was mostly a college basketball player.<\/p>\n<p>Who is Caleb Lohner?<\/p>\n<p>Lohner is a 6-foot-7 tight end who played college basketball.<\/p>\n<p>He went to BYU to play college basketball, then transferred to Baylor to keep playing hoops.<\/p>\n<p>Only for his last season did he play football at Utah, in addition to continuing to play basketball.<\/p>\n<p>Lohner had just four catches for 54 yards with the Utes. All four grabs went for touchdowns.<\/p>\n<p>At his Pro Day, he ran a 4.69-second 40-yard dash and had a 37-inch vertical leap on his huge frame, which measured 6-7.25.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nfl\/buffalo-bills\/news\/bills-tredavious-white-patrick-mahomes-draft-pick-chiefs-trade\/03fad2a25ecb8c2de86d83ce\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bills&#8217; Tre White always linked to Patrick Mahomes in Chiefs trade<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Broncos&#8217; TE depth chart<\/p>\n<p>The Broncos have a fully healthy tight end group for Saturday&#8217;s game, which makes it seem more likely that Lohner has a role planned.<\/p>\n<p>The Broncos&#8217; top-two tight ends are Evan Engram and Adam Trautman. They also have Nate Adkins, who works in more of a fullback role.<\/p>\n<p>And now they have Lohner, the 6-foot-7 hooper hoping to make his debut and make an impact.<\/p>\n<p>More NFL news:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Denver Broncos added a fascinating name to their roster for Saturday&#8217;s AFC Divisional Round game against the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415961,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":["post-415960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}