ENGLEWOOD, Colo. \u2014 The Broncos have made a defensive roster move as training camp continues.<\/p>\n
Denver signed outside linebacker Garrett Nelson and placed rookie outside linebacker Johnny Walker on injured reserve, the team announced Thursday.<\/p>\n
Nelson, who played collegiately at Nebraska from 2019-22, recorded 167 tackles, 27 tackles for loss, 12 sacks, two forced fumbles and four passes defensed while with the Cornhuskers.<\/p>\n
He more recently played for the UFL’s San Antonio Brahmas and recorded 15 tackles, one tackle for loss and a forced fumble in eight games in 2025. Nelson also played for the Brahmas in 2024.<\/p>\n
In 2023, Nelson spent time with the Miami Dolphins and Cincinnati Bengals. He recorded five defensive tackles, a sack, a tackle for loss and a quarterback hit across three preseason games with the Dolphins. He has not appeared in a regular-season game.<\/p>\n
The Broncos signed Walker as a college free agent from Missouri in early May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ENGLEWOOD, Colo. \u2014 The Broncos have made a defensive roster move as training camp continues. Denver signed outside…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50980,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[39351,349,99,452,6182],"class_list":["post-50979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-aric-dilalla","tag-nfl","tag-sports","tag-top-stories","tag-transactions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}