{"id":687688,"date":"2026-06-06T09:41:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T09:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/687688\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T09:41:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T09:41:12","slug":"sean-payton-pleased-with-how-fast-jaylen-waddle-is-picking-up-the-broncos-offense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/687688\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean Payton pleased with how fast Jaylen Waddle is picking up the Broncos&#8217; offense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Broncos have just started their Organized Team Activities, and newly acquired wide receiver Jaylen Waddle is already impressing head coach Sean Payton.<\/p>\n<p>Payton said he\u2019s been pleased with what he\u2019s seen from Waddle on the practice field.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s had a good week,\u2019\u2019 Payton said, via the Denver Gazette. \u201cHe\u2019s someone who <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.denvergazette.com\/2026\/06\/04\/taking-the-field-for-first-time-with-broncos-wr-jaylen-waddle-picking-things-up-real-quick\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">picks things up real quick<\/a>. He had a real good day [Wednesday]. You can just feel his instincts, his quickness and his ability to really not only run fast, but stop fast. So he\u2019s doing well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Broncos gave up a first-round pick and a third-round pick for Waddle, an investment they wouldn\u2019t have made if they didn\u2019t expect him to provide a big upgrade to their offense. It will take a lot more than looking good at OTAs for that investment to pay off, but so far, Payton likes what he sees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Broncos have just started their Organized Team Activities, and newly acquired wide receiver Jaylen Waddle is already&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":687689,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-687688","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\/687688","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=687688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/687689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}