The Broncos have three quarterbacks on the roster. Starter Bo Nix\u2019s status is currently undetermined given the recent second procedure on the broken ankle he suffered late in a playoff win over the Bills.<\/p>\n
So could the Broncos add another quarterback for the offseason program? Coach Sean Payton was asked that question during a Saturday press conference.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s a great question,\u201d Payton said. \u201cWe\u2019ll discuss that. It means look, we have 90 [roster spots], so it is possible you can bring someone back in on a trial basis for the minicamp. Yet generally with those practices, two [quarterbacks] is not a problem. It would be more of an issue if you felt a player was going to be a PUP in training camp, and that\u2019s not going to be the case. <\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not saying we couldn\u2019t sign an additional quarterback. We\u2019ve discussed it, but really more in terms of, \u2018Do we see something in these two guys?\u2019 This [E.J.] Warner reminds me a lot of Chase Daniel. If you see his height, weight, size, speed, they\u2019re very similar. He\u2019s done a nice job. He\u2019s done a very nice job and especially considering he\u2019s coming off a weekend with different terminology, and he\u2019s kind of yawned at it. It\u2019s been real quick for him.\u201d<\/p>\n
E.J. Warner is the son of Hall of Fame quarterback Kurt Warner. Payton addressed the similarities, or lack thereof, between the son and the father.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s entirely different,\u201d Payton said of E.J. \u201cHe\u2019s just really stood out with getting in and out of the huddle. He has a quick release and a good stroke. [He\u2019s a] different type [of] player even. He\u2019s probably more celebrated coming out of Fresno [State] than his dad was coming out of Northern Iowa. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s funny in today\u2019s college game, those players that came from Jackson State or Southern Illinois or those smaller schools end up playing at Auburn and Purdue. You don\u2019t see those . . . . Occasionally [you do]. The true I-AA or smaller school players end up [in I-A]. We were having this discussion about HBCU schools. Walter Payton, does he finish at Jackson State or does he finish at Alabama. And Jerry Rice. It doesn\u2019t have to be an HBCU school, it can be Eastern Illinois when I was back there on a campus visit and I asked them, \u2018How are you guys handling that?\u2019 Those schools are then looking at the other schools who are smaller than them to supplement their team. It\u2019s a lot different than it used to be. When you look at however many draft picks there were and you looked at [Division I], that ratio is much higher now. They are filtering up.\u201d<\/p>\n
That\u2019s a great point. And it\u2019s a byproduct of the NIL era. Between the availability of money and the ease of transferring, players who stand out at a small school will be gobbled up by a bigger school. Like E.J. Warner, who went from Temple to Rice to Fresno State.<\/p>\n
And there\u2019s a chance, after his tryout at Denver\u2019s minicamp, E.J. Warner could get a spot on the offseason roster. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Broncos have three quarterbacks on the roster. Starter Bo Nix\u2019s status is currently undetermined given the recent…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":635525,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-635524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635524","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=635524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/635525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}