{"id":720750,"date":"2026-06-07T09:49:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T09:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/720750\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T09:49:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T09:49:13","slug":"broncos-courtland-sutton-wont-mind-losing-any-targets-to-jaylen-waddle-i-want-to-win-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/720750\/","title":{"rendered":"Broncos’ Courtland Sutton won’t mind losing any targets to Jaylen Waddle: ‘I want to win games’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Denver rolled to a 14-3 record and the AFC’s top seed last season with a quartet of receivers whose utilization ebbed and flowed.<\/p>\n

Sutton was a constant, tallying his third 1,000-yard receiving season on 124 targets (74 receptions) on the way to his second Pro Bowl, but Troy Franklin<\/a> only trailed slightly behind him with 65 catches on 104 targets. Pat Bryant<\/a> became more involved as his rookie year progressed, averaging six targets over his final five regular-season games, and Marvin Mims Jr.<\/a> actually tied Sutton for the team lead in playoff targets with 14.<\/p>\n

There was unselfishness among them, and Sutton is harping on that theme as Waddle joins the ranks.<\/p>\n

Denver paid a steep price for Waddle, packaging three 2026 picks — highlighted by the No. 30 overall selection — to pry the wide receiver and a fourth-rounder away from the Dolphins. It will be well worth it if Waddle and Co. can help third-year quarterback Bo Nix<\/a> reach the next stage of his maturation.<\/p>\n

Waddle profiles as a pass catcher who should make finding completions as easy as possible for Nix. He excels at short and intermediate routes, and despite Miami’s offense taking a downturn at the end of his time there, he ended his five-year Fins tenure with 373 receptions for 5,039 yards and 26 touchdowns.<\/p>\n

His presence, combined with Sutton’s, should guarantee contributors such as Bryant and Franklin easier matchups than they faced last year. It should also help Waddle and Sutton directly, in turn leading to the victories Denver’s incumbent target leader covets over personal glory.<\/p>\n

“Courtland is an elite playmaker, so anytime you have a playmaker on the other side of you, it’s just makes it easy,” Waddle said during the same media session. “It’s someone that the defense has to be looking for, and vice versa.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Denver rolled to a 14-3 record and the AFC’s top seed last season with a quartet of receivers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":720751,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[10949,49,48,16243,1743,10393,44,514,2208,10950,82],"class_list":["post-720750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-around-the-nfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-courtland-sutton","tag-denver-broncos","tag-jaylen-waddle","tag-news","tag-nfl","tag-no-minute","tag-offseason-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720750","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=720750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/720751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=720750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=720750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=720750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}